...author defines orthopaedic surgery as that department which includes the prevention, the mechanical treatment of chronic or progressive deformities for...apparatus or special mechanical dressings are necessary. In Dr. Shaffer's opinion, the orthopaedic surgeon as a specialist should refer all cases which do not...

...Surgery^ 222 • THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE • viz. : " Orthopaedic Surgery is that department of general surgery which includes the prevention, the mechanical...apparatus or special mechanical dressings are necessary." This definition attracted much attention and considerable adverse criticism. It has the approval of...

...forms of apparatus or special mechanical dressings are necessary. follows: That department of general surgery which includes the prevention, the mechanical...operative treatment of chronic or progressive deformities. ORTHOPEDIC NOSOLOGY. Dr. WR Townsend, of Ne,w York, advised the construction of a uniform nomenclature...

...necessary. Dr. VP Gibney, of New York, proposed a definition as follows: That department of general surgery which includes the prevention, the mechanical...operative treatment of chronic or progressive deformities. ORTHOPEDIC NOSOLOGY. Dr. WR Townsend, of New York, advised the construction of a uniform nomenclature...

...judgment, renders the whole definition ambiguous. Suppose it read as follows : " Orthopedic surgery is that department of surgery which includes the prevention,...treatment of chronic or progressive deformities." The paragraphs which follow I think give this impression — that in the author's opinion, no surgery...

...necessary." J would modify this definition to-day so that it would read as follows : " Orthopedic surgery is that department of surgery which includes the prevention, the mechanical treatment, and «The Present Status oi Orthope.lic Surgery, New York Medical Journal, January 26, 1884. 342 MEDICAL RECORD....

...International Medical Congress, at Berlin, Dr. Newton M. Shaffer, of New York, read a paper in which he defined orthopaedic surgery as " that department of...apparatus or special mechanical dressings are necessary." While holding that the orthopaedic surgeon should be a good general surgeon, yet, he says, in the field...

...some deformity and disability to the care of experts. Dr. NM Shaffer, of New York, defined orthopedic surgery as that department of surgery which includes...the operative treatment, of chronic or progressive deformitiei1, for the proper treatment of which special forms of apparatus or special mechanical dressinjs...

...necessary. Dr. VP Gibney, of New York, proposed a definition as follows : That department of general surgery which includes the prevention, the mechanical...operative treatment of chronic or progressive deformities. ORTHOPEDIC NOSOLOGY. Dr. WR Townsend, of New York, advised the construction of a uniform nomenclature...

...necessary. Dr. VP Gibney, of New York, proposed a definition as follows: That department of general surgery which includes the prevention, the mechanical...treatment, and the operative treatment of chronic progressive deformities. ORTHOPEDIC NOSOLOGY. Dr. WR Townsend, of New York, advised the construction...