Excerpt from A Treatise on Diseases of the Joints For some considerable time a Second Edition of my Treatise on Diseases of the Joints has been called for, and indeed, though never ceasing to study clinically and anatomically these affections, I began twelve years ago more especially to prepare my materials and myself for its production. Soon after 1861, whether the appearance of my First Edition was the stimulus, or merely fortuitously I know not, many excel lent essays were published, and much careful investigation was undertaken here, in America, in Germany, and in France; moreover, personal experience and research had provided me with a quantity of material. Hence, it became more and more evident as time went on that the Second Edition must undergo such enlargement and revision, that it appeared to me better to rewrite the whole book. In its present form, therefore, the Treatise contains but a few words here and there of the First Edition. 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.