TREATMENT

OF

FRACTURES OF THE LIMBS

BY

SAMPSON GAMGEE,

FELLOW OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH SURGEON TO THE

SCRIPSERIS

"SI QUID TAMEN OLIM

NONUM PREMATUR IN ANNUM,

MEMBRANIS INTUS POSITIS.

Q. HORATII FLACCI ARS POETICA."

DEDICATED

TO THE

REV. CHARLES CLARKE,

THE CHAIRMAN, AND TO THE OTHER MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE

OF THE

QUEEN'S HOSPITAL, BIRMINGHAM,

IN GRATEFUL RECOGNITION OF THEIR CO-OPERATION WITH

THE

MEDICAL STAFF, IN DEVELOPING THE RESOURCES OF THE HOSPITAL

AS A

CLINICAL SCHOOL,

BY THEIR FAITHFUL COLLEAGUE,

THE AUTHOR.

PREFACE.

IN his recollections of the last days of Shelley and Byron,* Mr. Trelawny relates the following anecdote:Drifting leisurely along the Italian coast in the brig Hercules one evening near Lonza, a Neapolitan dungeon, Byron said, 'I should like to see, from this our ark, the world submerged, and all the rascals in it drowning like rats.' I put a pencil and paper in his hand, saying, 'Perpetuate your curses to tyranny.' After a long spell, he said, 'I must chew the cud before I write. I have thought over most of my subjects for years before writing a line."

Believing that this example is very well worthy of imitation by surgical writers, I have thought over the contents of this volume so long and carefully that, although only now published, they are in part old.

The volume consists of two parts:-1st, of eight Lectures; 2nd, of an Appendix.

The first seven Lectures are published with only verbal alterations, as they have been delivered at various times