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Excerpt from Contributions to Practical Surgery
The surgeon then grasps the head with one hand beneath the chin, and the other beneath the occiput, making exten sion, first in the direction of the dislocation, then in the longitudinal axis of the neck, and when this seems to have been sufficiently made, he twists the head strongly towards the dislocated side. My friend, Dr. James R. Wood, of New York, safely and completely reduced 3. Partial luxation of this description in a child, by employing similar manipulations. After dislocation of the odontoid process, this is the form of accident to which most authors refer in speaking of luxations in the cervical region. 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.
