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Excerpt from Archives of Clinical Surgery, Vol. 1: A Monthly Periodical Devoted to Surgery in All Its Special Departments; August, 1876 With regard to the prognosis, it may be regarded as an established fact, that the disease, when left to itself, undergoes no amelioration, and that whatever change takes place is from bad to worse. But if the contracted bands be thoroughly divided, and the affected fingers brought into an extended position, and secured by proper splints, and if passive motion be vigorously and persistently applied, the deformity fi' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.