TY  - JOUR
T1  - A plea for the more careful diagnosis and treatment of fractures of the extremities
AU  - MARTIN E
Y1  - 1909/12/18
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1909.92550250001001g
JO  - Journal of the American Medical Association
SP  - 2073
EP  - 2077
VL  - LIII
IS  - 25
N2  - As in all other surgical conditions, great advancement has been made in the treatment of fractures. The suspension method of the lower extremities perfected by Hodgen and the ambulatory treatment suggested by Krause, Dollinger and others, have done much not only for the comfort of patients, but unquestionably have saved many an old sufferer from death by pneumonia. The introduction of anesthesia and the certainty of asepsis have reduced the mortality in compound fractures to practically nil. The advent of the x-ray has made a doubtful diagnosis a certainty and excellent results have been secured by this means in many apparently hopeless cases. It may, therefore, appear strange in the present-day advancement of surgical progress, when technic has reached almost a point of perfection, that one should be pleading for more thoroughness in so important a condition as the treatment of fractures. It is not that this branch of
SN  - 0002-9955
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1909.92550250001001g
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1909.92550250001001g
ER  -