Johns Hopkins Hospital Bulletin Volume 23 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 edition. Excerpt: ...can be convened. Due consideration will be given to localities from which applications are received, in order to lessen the traveling expenses of applicants as much as possible. The examination in subjects of general education (mathematics, geography, history, general literature, and Latin) may be omitted in the case of applicants holding diplomas from reputable literary or scientific colleges, normal schools or high schools, or graduates of medical schools which require an entrance examination satisfactory to the faculty of the Army Medical School. In order to perfect all necessary arrangements for the examination, applications must be complete and in possession of the Adjutant General at least three weeks before the date of examination. Early attention is therefore enjoined upon all intending applicants. There are at present sixty-eight vacancies in the medical corps of the army. NEW BOOKS. There is no doubt but that most of us are disposed to keep a broken bone at rest in a fixation apparatus of one sort or another, for a. longer time than is absolutely necessary, but the removal of such support as early as the author advises seems to one who has had no experience in treating fractures entirely by " mobilisation and massage " to be somewhat radical. The use of " massage and mobilisation" has undoubtedly been much neglected in the treatment of fractures, and if the book accomplishes nothing more than to again bring this important adjunct of early functional results to the attention of the medical profession, it will have done a good work. The painless treatment and rapid results obtained by the author show what can be done by an expert in this method of treatment, but in the hands of the ordinary physician, it...