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EXCISION OF JOINTS.

rnl otitcr parts, that it was first partially and then wholly done for injury, and i)roposed by one Surgeon and eventually practised by another

for disease.

Tluis in n58 or 1759, Wainman, in a case of compound dislocation of the joint, sawed off the lower end of the humerus just above the fossa leaving the patient with a flexible and useful arm. Tyne, of Gloucester.' did the same, removing two and a half inches of the lower end of the

humerus, in a case of compound dislocation. Justamond, of the Westminster Hospital, was the first to operate in a case of diseas£: this he did in 1775, removing the olecranon and two inches of the ulna. Park proposed, but did not have an opportunity of practisina:, the complete extirpation of the joint. This was done for the first time by Moreau, senior, in 1794, and again by Moreau, junior, in 1797. Little was done from this time until the operation was revived by the Surgeons of Leeds in 1818 by Stansfield, in 1819 by Chorley and Hey. It then made rapid progress in professional estimation, and was specially largely practised