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Excerpt from A Treatise on the Distortions and Deformities of the Human Body: Exhibiting a Concise View of the Nature and Treatment of the Principal Malfomations and Distortions of the Chest, Spine, and Limbs Peculiar circumstances having directed my attention to the subject of Deformities, I was surprised to find that there was no work in the English language, which professed to treat generally of these maladies. We have some excellent works on particular varieties of spinal distortion, but with regard to deformities of the limbs, excepting a few scattered papers in our periodicals, I can find no good description of these maladies, nor is there any English, writer on surgery, who enters into a detailed account of their nature and treatment. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.