I. The mechanism of dislocations and fracture of the hip : II. Litholapaxy, or, Rapid lithotrity with evacuation

II. Litholapaxy; Or, Rapid Lithotrity With Evacuation

BY

HENRY JACOB BIGELOW

MEMIiP:R OF THE MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SOCIETY ; EMEKITUS PKO- EESSOK OF SURGERY IN HARVARD UNIVERSITY ; SURGEON OF THE MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL; MEMBER OF THK AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES ; MEMBER OF THE BOSTON SOCIETY FOR MEDI- CAL IMPROVEMENT ; MEMBER OF THE BOSTON SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY; FOREIGN HONORARY MEMBER OF THE CLINICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON ; MEMBRE CORRESPONDANT STRANGER DE LA SOCIE'JE DE CHI- RUR61E DE PARIS; MEMBRE HONORAIKE DE LA SoCIETE ANATOMIQUE DE PARIS ; MEMBRE COKRESPONDANT DE LA SOCIETE BIOLOGIQUE DE PAKIS; SOCIUS EXTRANEUS SOCIETATIS MEDIC.E NOR- VEGIC^; ETC., ETC.

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BOSTON LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY

University Pkess : Joiix Wilson and Son, Cambridge, U.S. A

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HE First Part of this volume contains Dr. Bigelow's Treatise on the Mechanism of Dislocations and Fracture of the Hip, which has been long out of print. The Papers appended thereto comprise his other contributions to the literature of these subjects. They are reproduced witli only such changes of the original text as their author had indicated a desire to have made.

The Second Part includes Dr. Bigelow's published articles on Rapid Lithotrity, arranged in chronological order, and unmodified except by his own annotations.

Boston, 1894.

Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

Contents

part 5.

THE MECHANISM OF DISLOCATIONS OF THE HIP.

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