THE SURGICAL IMPORTANCE OF CERVICAL RIBS TO THE GENERAL PRACTITIONER.

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I should scarcely venture to present this topic here, were it not that the general medical profession has not yet become familiar with it. Surgeons and neurologists have in recent years awakened to the great value of studies in embryology, comparative anatomy and pathology. The results of such studies are, however, more or less unknown to the bulk of practitioners, because they are published chiefly in journals devoted to the specialties of medical science. The surgical importance of vestigial structures, like the omphalomesenteric duct, the thyroglossal duct and the branchial clefts, and the relations of bony and other structural anomalies have a place, therefore, in the discussions of this Section. A few years ago a distinguished surgeon remarked in a formal address that accurate anatomic knowledge was now hardly an essential in the training of a surgeon. Such an opinion is invalidated by a brief reference to the development of

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