Excerpt from Lectures on Orthopedic Surgery and Diseases of the Joints: Delivered at Bellevue Hospital Medical College During the Winter Session 1874-1875 For some years past I have been in the frequent receipt of letters from medical gentlemen of the highest standing, in different sections of our country, as well as from many abroad, urging me to prepare a work on Orthopedic Surgery and Diseases of the Joints setting forth my peculiar views of their pathology and method of treatment. As many of my views were so directly at variance with the standard authorities, I hesitated to write until a larger experience should either confirm my observations or prove them to be erroneous. In the latter case, of course, I should have no occasion for publishing. A more extended experience has confirmed my original views; but constant professional occupation has prevented me from complying with the request of my friends, as I have been unable to find the time to perform the manual labor of writing such a work as I should desire to produce. I therefore employed Dr. Wesley M. Carpenter, so well known to the profession in this city for his accuracy as a stenographic reporter, to follow me during the course of last winter's lectures, at the Bellevue Hospital Medical College, and the present work is the 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.