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The author clearly believes that early diagnosis and treatment are now within reach, and that together they constitute the preventive surgery of congenital dislocation of the hip.
Abstract
dislocation, and all the other ills with which orthopaedic surgeons are only too familiar. even including abnormal anteversion of the femoral neck. The rest of the book contains a general summary of the many views held from time to,time on the aetiology and treatment of frank congenital dislocation of the hip and occasional quotations from past and present masters such as Putti, of Bologna, and our own Sir Thomas Fairbank. Some of this seems hardly germane to the author's purpose of following in Putti's footsteps by leading a crusade for earlier diagnosis. He does, however, go further than any of his mentors, not only by integrating their work, but by showing how diagnosis can be made quite simply at an early age by almost any doctor, and by recommending Frejka's pillow splint. Orthopaedic surgeons need no conversion to the view that the earlier you treat the patients the better your congenitalhip results become, but they ought to read this welldocumented and well-illustrated plea for increased co-operation from their colleagues in charge of the newborn. The author clearly believes that early diagnosis and treatment are now within reach, and that together they constitute the preventive surgery of congenital dislocation of the hip.