Produced by Thiers Halliwell, Sonya Schermann and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) Transcriber's notes: The text of this e-book has been preserved as in the original, including inconsistent capitalisation and hyphenation. Archaic and inconsistent spellings have also been preserved except where obviously misspelled in the original. A list of corrections and inconsistencies is appended at the end of the book. In this transcription, italic text is denoted by _underscores_ and bold text by *asterisks*. Footnotes have been renumbered and positioned below the relevant paragraphs. A TREATISE ON FRACTURES, LUXATIONS, AND OTHER AFFECTIONS OF THE BONES, BY P. J. DESAULT, SURGEON IN CHIEF TO THE HOTEL-DIEU OF PARIS, WHEREIN HIS OPINIONS AND PRACTICE, IN SUCH CASES, ARE STATED AND EXEMPLIFIED. EDITED BY XAV. BICHAT; WITH PLATES. TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH, BY CHARLES CALDWELL, M. D. WITH NOTES, AND AN APPENDIX CONTAINING SEVERAL LATE IMPROVEMENTS IN SURGERY. PHILADELPHIA: PRINTED BY FRY AND KAMMERER, LÆTITIA COURT. 1805. _District of Pennsylvania, to wit_: [Illustration: {SEAL}] BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the twentieth day of February, in the twenty-ninth year of the independence of the United States of America, A. D. 1805, Charles Caldwell, M. D. of the said district, hath deposited in this Office, the Title of a Book, the Right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following to wit: “A Treatise on Fractures, Luxations, and other Affections of the Bones, by P. J. Desault, surgeon in chief to the Hotel-Dieu of Paris, wherein his Opinions and Practice, in such cases, are stated and exemplified. Edited by Xav. Bichat; with Plates. Translated from the French, by Charles Caldwell, M. D. With Notes, and an Appendix containing several late improvements in surgery.” In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, intituled, “An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned:” And also to the act, entitled, “An act supplementary to an act, entitled, “An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned,” and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving and etching historical and other prints.”