The Medical Gazette: A Weekly Journal of Medicine, Surgery, and the Collateral Sciences, Volume 2, Issue 4

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Bermingham & Company, 1877
 

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Page 148 - ... produce a transverse fracture at any selected point with ease, and certainty and safety from after complications." It is especially adapted for the deformity occurring after anchylosis in hip-joint disease, and the case in which it was used was one " where the right thigh was adducted to the fullest possible extent, flexed at a right angle with the pelvis, and fixed in that position by a firm anchylosis " Fracture at the elected point was obtained by the use of the osteoclast, and though union...

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