Diseases of the hip, knee, and ankle joints : with their deformities, treated by a new and efficient method / by Hugh Owen Thomas, with an introduction by Rushton Parker.

  • Thomas, Hugh Owen, 1834-1891.
Date:
1878
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Credit: Diseases of the hip, knee, and ankle joints : with their deformities, treated by a new and efficient method / by Hugh Owen Thomas, with an introduction by Rushton Parker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    A man born to live through a given cycle lives through it free of disease, unless he be stricken from without. If he be stricken, and by the stroke the natural functions, by the exercise of which he lives, are not so disturbed but that they can swing back again in due order, he may recover; if he be stricken beyond this, he will die. Nature will per- sue her course undisturbed by either event. She will make no special effort to kill, and assuredly she will put out no special hand to save. A man may intervene, and may, by knowledge, put the stricken body into such a condition that it may swing back into natural course whereby he will have put it into a condition in which it will not die. This is the very highest development of medical art resting on science. But it is not cure, in the common meaning of that term.—Dr. W. B. Richardson, F.R.S., in Nature, July 5th, 1S77.