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REVIEW OF NEUROLOGY.

APRIL–JUNE. VOL. XVII.

MILITARY PHYSICAL ORTHOPÆDICS. PART I. GUNSHOT WOUND OF NERVE. ARTHUR STANLEY HERBERT, M.D., B.S., Lieut.-Col., N.Z.M.C. Pp. 136, with 62 figures. Price, 6s.; postage, 6d. extra.

This volume deals exclusively with the consideration of the later results of gunshot wound of nerve trunks and their treatment. It is practically a record of personal experience, as the work was done remote from other orthopædic hospitals. The grouping is in terms of convenience of treatment rather than of anatomy, and deals with the physical as distinguished from the surgical side of orthopædics. Emphasis is laid on the importance of promoting the voluntary action of partly paralysed muscles by the provision of artificial muscles, and thus rendering the results obtained by massage, electricity, baths, douches, &c., accessory rather than indispensable. It is claimed this method is simpler, less expensive, and more humane, as it removes the patient from the category of invalids to that of fairly useful workers. Great ingenuity has been exercised in devising the different mechanical supports of special splints and rubber muscles for the paralysed muscle, the use of rubber as an active elastic force being particularly utilized, and indeed is the basic idea underlying the whole system of treatment here advocated. The book is copiously illustrated by good figures, which add considerably to its value; the apparatus itself is characterized by its simplicity, and has stood the test of actual use in a large number of cases.

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