. A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations. Fig. Figs. 205, 206.—Various forms of Colless fracture; r-rny tracing. than half of their cases; it has appeared in less than 10 per cent, o^my skiagrams. 314 FRACTURES. Specimens of recent fracture are not very common, and many ofthose we possess are open to the objection that the fractures have beencaused by violence far in excess of that which causes the great majorityof the fractures met with clinically, the patients having falling froma considerable height, and having received other injuries that causeddeath within a short time t
. A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations. Fig. Figs. 205, 206.—Various forms of Colless fracture; r-rny tracing. than half of their cases; it has appeared in less than 10 per cent, o^my skiagrams. 314 FRACTURES. Specimens of recent fracture are not very common, and many ofthose we possess are open to the objection that the fractures have beencaused by violence far in excess of that which causes the great majorityof the fractures met with clinically, the patients having falling froma considerable height, and having received other injuries that causeddeath within a short time thereafter. Others are obtained from elderlypatients who have received the fracture in the usual manner, that is,by a fall upon the ground while walking, and have then died in a fewdays of an intercurrent affection, usually pneumonia. The Rontgen rays have recently added to our knowledge of thedetails, showing that the surface of fracture is rarely flat and trans- FiG. 207.
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