A Method for the Reduction of Dislocations of the Hip.

accumulations of intestinal contents above the lesion. A ring of mucous membrane is removed from the distal end, into which the proximal (with or without removal or roughening of its peritoneal coat) is passed, and there secured by suture, either looped or continuous, the whole procedure being accomplished without the aid of any mechanical support. The principle of the method would seem to be good, for it appears to have suggested itself to at least four independent workers, who have carried it out with variations in details. Robinson of Toledo (by means of a rubber bobbin, experimentally, in the dog), published in the Annals of Suryery, i89;* Harris, of Chicago (making temporary use of needles for fixation until the suturing is completed), published in the Chicago Medical Recorder, 1892; myself, (Ulasgow Medical Journal and Transactions of Glasyow MedicoChirurgical Society, 1896; and Skelly, of Pekin, U.S.A., Annals oJ Surgery, 1898; Skelly and myself making use of no mechanical aid whatever in addition to the sutures. In cases other than those I have indicated I believe it is in no sense superior to, and in some respects not so good as, the continuous Czerny-Lembert suture which I employed in the case here detailed. NOTE. The specimens were shown at a meeting of the Glasgow MedicoChirurgical Society.