Orthopedic surgery

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This collection contains over 350 photographs of surgical techniques, practices, and cases which require surgery; orthopedic surgery patients; skiagraphs of fractured bones; and other related images. The majority of the images can be found in Ashhurst's Surgery; its principles and practice, for students and practitioners (1914).

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Volume of notes taken by George Kissam Meynen on orthopedic surgery clinics and lectures of Newton M. Shaffer in the Medical Department of New York University, 1884 Sept. 20-1885 Feb. 13. Includes case histories of individual patients treated at New York Orthopaedic Dispensary and Hospital.

Abstract George Wagoner (1896-1957), was a Philadelphia-based orthopedic surgeon who spent his career studying bone pathology. He served in administrative and teaching roles in various hospitals in Philadelphia and pioneered the celloidin mount technique for microscopic examination of total specimen sections. Collection materials consist of photographs, x-rays, glass slides, academic publications, correspondence, and personal papers. This collection is divided into three series. The first series,...

Scope and Contents Volume of lecture notes and notes on current medical journals and literature compiled by J. H. Huddleston while a student at the Medical School of Harvard University, [ca. 18891890]. Primary contents of the lecture notes concern surgery, clinical surgery, orthopaedic surgery, and the diseases of children; many lectures were delivered at Boston City Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital as part of clinical training for students. Lecturers include: Edward H. Bradford, Herbert L. Burrell,...