Surgical cases and essays / by Rushton Parker.

  • Parker, Rushton, 1847-1932.
Date:
1882
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Credit: Surgical cases and essays / by Rushton Parker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    LANCET, 26th APRIL, 1S79. ON ELASTIC PRESSURE IN THE TREATMENT O F INFLAMMATION OF THE JOINTS. BY RUSHTON PARKER, M.B., B.S., F.R.C.S., ' Assistant •Surgeon and Lecturer on Surgery at the Liverpool Royal Infirmary and School of Medicine. 0 My reply of Dec. 7th, 1878, to Mr. Keetley's paper of Nov. 23rd, on the above subject, written with a studious brevity, was rather an assertion of my own conclusions and personal imjiressions than an attempt at the more lengthy process of their detailed justification. This attempt, however, I feel now compelled to make, and I have the less hesitation in doing so as I see in his paper a disposition to per- petuate views which are of a somewhat representative character, which really affect the whole subject of inflammation, and, consequently, its surgical treatment, but which I regard as no less misleading in practice than erroneous in principle. Mr. Keetley is kind enough to reciprocate the feeling of personal goodwill, which I hope there may be no occasion to disturb. A want of clearness in my last sentence, quoted in hir. answer of March ist, 1879, has led him to misinterpret its meaning; but as the sentence is quite unimportant I will dismiss it, and go on to the main points. Whether Mr. Keetley estimates correctly or not tlie prevalence of a faith in, or of the use of, Scott's dressing, I cannot really say, but I am less concerned with the belief entertained by