Excerpt from Reconstructive Surgery in Peace: Based Upon Orthopaedic Surgery in War To some it may be a matter of surprise that I should claim so great a breadth for orthopaedic sur gery, but to those who are conversant with the works of such surgeons as Sir Robert Jones, of Liverpool; Whitman, of New York, and the late Gwilym Davis, of Philadelphia, my claims will not come as a surprise. Again, the very word orthopaedic is derived from the two Greek words, orthos and pair, which translated literally would mean a straight child. Thus the business of orthopaedic surgeons is to make stra ight people by combating deformity either threatened or existing and, practically, orthopaedic surgery may be defined as the surgery of the frame work of the human body, in contradistinction to abdominal surgery, genito-urinary surgery, cranial surgery, thoracic surgery or the surgery of any other special part. 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.