Excerpt from Orthopedic Papers Fig. L. - Arthroplasty (murphy). Skin and fat dissected to either side. Fat flap below skin to triceps elevated. Ulnar nerve dissected out and retracted by gauze. Olecranon tip sawed through and pushed up. End of humerus being sawed off. The interposition of soft tissues was first used in a case of temporomaxillary ankylosis in 1893 by Hel ferich,2 who interposed part of the temporal muscles. In the elbow the first Operation on record is that of Quenu3 in 1902, who resected extensively the inferior end of the humerus and the superior end of the fore arm, and detaching the anterior ligament and doub ling it with a few fibers from the brachialis anticus, fixed it against the bony surface of the humerus with three sutures to the fibrous posterior parts, keeping the parts in plaster fifteen days. He reported a good. Functional result. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.