TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF HAND SURGERY

Development of flexor tendon surgery: twenty-five years of progress.

Regaining satisfactory digital function after flexor tendon laceration and repair within the digit has long been one of the most difficult problems in hand surgery. Until the 1960s it was universally recommended that tendons divided in the digit (then referred to as “no man’s land”) should not be repaired. Bunnell taught that “it is better to remove the tendons entirely from the finger and graf...

Twenty-Five Years Ago

Twenty Five Years Ago

A second individual next went down the shaft of the well with a rope to try and rescue the boy, but was suffocated and ropped into the water. A third then went down, dangled his legs in the water and tried to grasp the two still living bodies between his knees. He suddenly felt suffocated, however, and shouted to be drawn up. This man recovered; he states that he thinks the two were still livin...

Twenty Five Years Ago

Twenty Five Years Ago

length with the Bill then pending before the Bengal Legislative Council to amend the Bengal Medical Act and with the criticisms of the Bill put forward by the Bengal Medical Association. We pointed out that the functions of the Bengal Council of Medical Registration, like those of the General Medical Council of Great Britain, fell into three categories:?(1) to maintain the medical register, (2)...