Proceedings of the... Annual Meeting of the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States. (1897) (14777960481)
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Title: Proceedings of the... Annual Meeting of the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States.
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Association of Military Surgeons of the United States. Meeting
Subjects: Surgery, Military Medicine, Military Surgery, Military Medicine, Military Military Medicine
Publisher: St. Louis : The Association
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
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uire knowledge,discipline and self-reliance. The remainder of the first lectureisgiven up to a description of the general construction of the hu-man body and the relation of the most important organs to thesurface. This latter is most important, and beside being shownby means of a diagram exposing those organs, the instructormarks them out in chalk on the living body. A large diagram offigure 100 in Captain Pilchers book1 showing the relation of theorgans of the chest and abdomen to the clothing would be mostuseful. There is a great want of a really good set of anatomicaldiagrams, the ones in use in my class are those of Fielder andHoclemann (published by Allman), and are as good as any Iknow. Diagram I is 50x36 inches and the five others 36x26. The second lecture and even- succeeding one commences witha catechism on the work done the time before. The subject of 1 First Aid in Illness and Injury. By Captain James E. Pilcher,U. S. A. London : Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co.. Ltd.
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59^ Surgeon Captain Rory Fletcher. this lecture is Bones. Joints and Muscles. The bones are actu-ally given into the mens hands that they may become familiar withthem, and they are asked to put them in their proper place in theskeleton. As soon as the lower extremity is reached, the descrip-tion of a joint is interpolated to show how it is connected with thetrunk and each particular joint is described in its place. Whenwe arrive at the ankle joint the men are told its great liability tosprains and that class of injury and its treatment brought to theirnotice. So likewise dislocations and their treatment crop up withthe shoulder joint. This plan makes a break in the dull enumera-tion of the names of the bones and excites the bearers interest.The ordinary name of each bone is given and its technical namewritten very legibly on the blackboard. The lecture concludeswith a short account of muscle tissue and by some homely ex-amples its contractility and influence on fractures is demonstrat
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