Menders of the Maimed: The Anatomical and Physiological Principles Underlying the Treatment of Injuries to Muscles, Nerves, Bones and Joints (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Keith, Arthur

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ISBN 10: 1330492986 ISBN 13: 9781330492987

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from Menders of the Maimed: The Anatomical and Physiological Principles Underlying the Treatment of Injuries to Muscles, Nerves, Bones and Joints

I have set about my task in a way which I believe to be new. The first advance in every great curative movement is made by a single mind brooding over facts gleaned by the bedside, the experimental bench, or the dissecting table; these are the critical occasions in the history Of Medicine; on such occasions are forged the implements Of the surgeon's armamentarium. I have sought to guide the reader to the hospital wards, the physiological laboratories, the dissecting rooms, and private workrooms in which the great advances Of orthopaedic surgery were made, and to introduce to them the Menders Of the Maimed as they were in the heyday of life. In only this way, I conceive, can Medical History be written profitably.

I have frankly presented my History from a British point of View. Every great medical movement sweeps over all civilised countries; we are all involved in it. Nothing will please me better than that this self-imposed task should induce colleagues in other countries to write the same history from their national point of view.

The surgical problems presented by the war were new in extent, but not new in kind. The doubts which were revived were Old; the questions which urgently demanded an answer were Of ancient times. What is the rightful place of Best, Action, Massage, Bone-setting, Sprain - rubbing, Manipulative Surgery, Electricity, Heat, Cold, Counter - irritation, in our orthopaedic armamentarium? What can operative measures do - grafting, suturing, transplantation? Is the periosteum capable of forming bone? To those and many other problems I have sought to provide the materials 011 which the right answer must be based.

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Excerpt from Menders of the Maimed: The Anatomical Physiological Principles Underlying the Treatment of Injuries to Muscles, Nerves, Bones,& Joints Men of business find it necessary from time to time to take an inventory of the goods they have in stock; occasions arise when medical men must do the same thing and make a survey of the means of treatment at their disposal. That is the case now; surgeons are being called on to restore movement to thousands of men who have been lamed or maimed in war; they find it necessary to re-examine the foundations of their science and practice. In this book I have sought to help them by a re-statement of the principles which underlie the art of Orthopaedic Surgery. My chapters are based on a score of lectures given at the Royal College of Surgeons of England in the winter 1917-18 on "The Anatomical and Physiological Principles underlying the Treatment of Injuries to Muscles, Nerves, Bones, and Joints." We all agree, I have presumed, that effective and rational treatment must be based on our knowledge of the structure and mechanism of the human body. Hence, in the main, this is a book of applied anatomy and physiology. The surgical triumphs won since the discovery of anaesthesia, antisepsis, and asepsis have tended to make the surgeon forget that he is not a master but only a servant; the power to heal lies not in his hands but in the recuperative powers of his patient's body. He can assist the natural powers inherent in all living flesh but he cannot replace them. John Hunter devoted his life to prove that fact; those who read the medical lessons of the war aright realise that we have to return to Hunter's point of view. We can help the sick and the maimed in only one way - by aiding and abetting the natural defensive and recuperative mechanisms of the human body. Our methods must be based on a knowledge of these mechanisms. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at

Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1330492986
• ISBN 13: 9781330492987
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384