Abstract
Injuries to the knee resulting from industrial accidents comprise practically all types of traumatic lesions except gunshot wounds, and these have their counterpart in penetrating and lacerating wounds not infrequently encountered. Therefore the valuable lessons of the World War in knee surgery are largely applicable here and should be generally understood and practiced in this branch of civil surgery, and the problem of function, as well as of healing, should be kept constantly in the minds of those having the management of these cases. It appears that in many quarters there is still serious disregard or ignorance of many of the special points in diagnosis and treatment of knee injuries, which are so essential if these patients are to be back on the job in the shortest possible time with the least possible disability. This problem became one of great importance during the war, and its solution, chiefly by the
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