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Excerpt from The Hunterian Oration: Delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons, February 15th, 1897
Fashion reigned in Hunter's time as at present. Thus under the head of simple fracture we find him saying, The position for the patient to lie in was formerly on the back, but the side is now generally adopted. However, I think its whole advantage is that it has the appearance Of novelty, and is not a real improvement but time will establish the truth. Again, in speaking of fractured patella he says, Before the year 1750 it was the prae tice to endeavour to bring the broken ends of the bones as near together as possible, with little or no motion allowed but after that a fashion arose (for we have fashions in surgery as in everything else, arising perhaps from a person happening to do well who had not been treated in the old way) of letting the parts separate, and of not forbidding motion so strictly: but now caprice has, I believe, had its day, and we are taught by reason and experience that the parts should be, when cured, as nearly as possible in their natural situation.
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