Abstract
IF the practice of manipulative surgery is almost a monopoly of the bone-setter, the medical profession alone is to blame. The art of manipulation, with its therapeutic indications and contraindications, has received but scanty attention in the curriculum of the medical student; the average doctor's complete ignorance of the subject is not surprising. Mr. Bankart's book, which is intended for the student and general practitioner, is consequently of value in two ways. It demonstrates that a large field of minor orthopaedic practice is well within the limitations of any doctor who cares to learn its principles and who remembers his studies in anatomy; and to the physician who does not wish to acquire the art it indicates the large number of conditions which can suitably be referred to the orthopaedij surgeon, instead of being allowed to drift into tne risks of treatment by the unqualified practitioner.
Manipulative Surgery.
A. S.
Blundell Bankart
By. (Modern Surgical Monographs.) Pp. xii + 150 + 17 plates. (London: Constable and Co., Ltd., 1932.) 7s. 6d. net.
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Manipulative Surgery . Nature 133, 516 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133516c0
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