I.

THE MECHANISM OF DISLOCATIONS
AND FRACTURE OF THE HIP

II.

LITHOLAPAXY; OR, RAPID LITHOTRITY
WITH EVACUATION

BY

HENRY JACOB BIGELOW

A.M., M.D., LL.D.

MEMBER OF THE MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SOCIETY; EMERITUS PRO-
FESSOR OF SURGERY IN HARVARD UNIVERSITY; SURGEON OF
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL; MEMBER OF

THE

THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES ;
MEMBER OF THE BOSTON SOCIETY FOR MEDI-

CAL IMPROVEMENT; MEMBER OF THE
BOSTON SOCIETY OF NATURAL

HISTORY;

FOREIGN HONORARY MEMBER OF THE CLINICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON;
MEMBRE CORRESPONDANT ÉTRANGER DE LA SOCIÉTÉ DE CHI-
RURGIE DE PARIS; MEMBRE HONORAIRE DE LA SOCIÉTÉ
ANATOMIQUE DE PARIS; MEMBRE CORRESPONDANT
DE LA SOCIÉTÉ BIOLOGIQUE DE PARIS; SOCIUS
EXTRANEUS SOCIETATIS MEDICE NOR-
VEGICE; ETC., ETC.

BOSTON

LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY

گی

UNIVERSITY PRESS :

JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE, U.S. A

HE First Part of this volume contains Dr. Bigelow's

THE

Treatise on the Mechanism of Dislocations and Fracture of the Hip, which has been long out of print. The Papers appended thereto comprise his other contributions to the literature of these subjects. They are reproduced with only such changes of the original text as their author had indicated a desire to have made.

The Second Part includes Dr. Bigelow's published articles on Rapid Lithotrity, arranged in chronological order, and unmodified except by his own annotations.

BOSTON, 1894.