Abstract
Injuries to tendons and their sheaths is of frequent occurrence, and a perfect knowledge of anatomy and method of repair of these structures for the requisite surgical treatment is of great importance to the practical surgeon. In studying our text-books of surgery, one is struck by the liberal space allotted to fractures; while the subjects of laceration of tendons and treatment are superficially dealt with in a few lines. Although injuries to tendons occur both in hospital and private practice far less often than fractures, this subject should receive comparatively more consideration from authors, both from a pathological and surgical standpoint. It is not in recent cases where tendons are simply divided that surgeons meet with difficulties; but it is in old cases as in ancient fractures, where pathologic conditions have manifested themselves and produce the many complications which call for difficult surgical intervention. Therefore, before considering the treatment by
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