RT Journal
T1 ORthopedic surgery for practitioners.
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1909
FD July 17
VO LIII
IS 3
SP 221
OP 221
DO 10.1001/jama.1909.02550030063018
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1909.02550030063018
AB The book is dedicated to Dr. Charles Fayette Taylor, the father of the author, and one of the pioneers in this country in orthopedic surgery. It is divided into general, special and technical parts, and an effort has been made to present such methods as are at the command of any intelligent practitioner, and to eliminate irrelevant and useless matter. The result is the most readable book that has so far been written on orthopedic surgery. For the student and for the busy practitioner the division of the work into three parts may be confusing and unsatisfactory. A student more readily masters a subject when all that is to be said about it can be found in one place, and the practitioner who wishes to arrive at a differential diagnosis in an obscure case, and to learn at once how best to treat the patient may become impatient when he