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Excerpt from The Mechanism of Dislocation and Fracture of the Hip: With the Reduction of the Dislocations by the Flexion Method
Some of the more important points in this paper are presented in the following abstract, which may serve either as a table Of contents or as a list of propositions to be established by the evidence in the text. The comparatively few published autopsies of dislocation of the hip, and the still fewer conclusive ones, may indeed be insufficient for the complete analysis of its compli cated mechanism; but the deficient evidence may in a great measure be supplied by experiments upon the dead subject, where the essential conditions are identi cal with those of the living and etherized patient, not, withstanding what has been alleged to the contrary. The views here advanced may also be tested by the light they throw upon reported Cases, of which I have carefully examined such as were accessible to me. If still deemed inconclusive, they may remain in doubt until established or confuted by further Observation; but in the mean time it is certain that dislocated hips can be reduced upon the principles and by the rules laid down and explained in this paper. After reason able attention to the subject, I confess that I can find no explanation so satisfactory as that here given.
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