A Plea for Simplicity

A plea for simplicity in the classification of ankle fractures.

1. Ashurst and Bromer's classification of ankle fractures is a useful one, but falls into the complexities of subdivision into sequential progression of severity, i.e. 'degrees' of fracture. 2. A similar criticism can be made of the Lauge-Hansen classification which has an added semantic disadvantage. Doubts are also cast upon the validity of the direct application of experimental results in ca...

A Plea for Simplicity in the Prevention and Cure of Bacterial Infection

a better illustration of the confusion of ideas in the minds of many, on this subject, would be hard to find. Then I propose to show that the body does not need an increase of the material employed to fight organisms?protective substance?which vaccines and serums aim at supplying, because all the protective substance necessary to combat infection is present in the system. Only the opportunity t...

On the Radical Cure of Inguinal Hernia: A Plea for Greater Simplicity

communication with the peritoneal cavity, and acute peritonitis. Such accidents should be impossible. Safety can be ensured by scrupulous antiseptic precautions. As a second line of defence I am in the habit of not only ligaturing the neck of the sac but also suturing the edges. Care too is of course required to avoid operating on cases which are physically unfit. 2. Efficiency. This depends mo...

A Plea For Microsimulation

German demographic or educational projections are conventionally based on macrosimulations. Macrosimulation models use average values of the simulation parameters to compute the updating process. Additionally, the proportions of educational graduate rates stay constant in these models. In this paper I introduce a discrete event microsimulation model which is designed to project the graduate rat...

A Plea for Barabbas.