Excerpt from The Hip and Its Diseases
For nearly thirteen years I have resided in the Hospital for the Ruptured and Crippled, all of my time being devoted to daily service in both the in-door and the out-door departments. This hospital is well known for the large number of orthopedic cases that come under observation and treatment. For instance, during my term of service the annual reports show that up to the present time 2048 cases of "hip-disease" alone have been treated, and a very large proportion of this number have been under my own observation.
The hospital is further known as an extremely conservative institution. Dr. Jas. Knight, its founder and surgeon in-chief, has been led by his extensive experience to adopt a plan of treatment which coincides, in many respects, with the definition I have elsewhere given of the term expectant.
It will therefore be readily seen that the writer of this book has enjoyed unusual facilities for the study of the clinical history of bone and joint diseases. A large number of our cases in the wards are of this nature, and many remain in hospital for two or three years.
The record of signs and symptoms as they occur has been made without any bias, and it is seldom that any interpretation even, of these changes appears on the books. My aim, in other words, has been to picture every case from its beginning to its close.
Our case books, which now number several volumes, will show how well we have succeeded, and they will show too that the notes have been made by or at the dictation of myself.
My observations have not been confined especially to cases under the non-mechanical treatment.
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