. A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations. Circumscribed fracture Avith iuclusion of hair. (Konig.) the dominant feature is the fracture and in which injury to the brainis usually absent or strictly localized. This feature is of so great prac-tical importance that I wish it might be indicated in the classifying Fig. Circuinscrihod dcprossiMl frjuturo. (Konu;.) nomenclature, to the exclusion, or at least the great subordination, o^^depression, which has long held the attention of the surgeon, to thehopeless conft)undiug of radically dillerent cases anil the useless or 138 FRACTU
. A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations. Circumscribed fracture Avith iuclusion of hair. (Konig.) the dominant feature is the fracture and in which injury to the brainis usually absent or strictly localized. This feature is of so great prac-tical importance that I wish it might be indicated in the classifying Fig. Circuinscrihod dcprossiMl frjuturo. (Konu;.) nomenclature, to the exclusion, or at least the great subordination, o^^depression, which has long held the attention of the surgeon, to thehopeless conft)undiug of radically dillerent cases anil the useless or 138 FRACTURES. harmful generalization of therapeutic measures the value of which isstrictly limited. I have long sought such a name that would be dis-tinctive and short; possibly ^^circumscribed fracture of the vaultwould serve the purpose, although it is far from meeting all the indi-cations. The vast majority of fractures of this class involve the vault, butthey occasionally occur at the base, the vulnerant body reaching itthrough the mouth or orbit, and in a very few cases even the condyleof the lower jaw has been driven through the roof of its socket,^ orthe ethmoid driven in by a blow on the nose. The prognosis is worsein these basal cases because important parts of the brain are usuallyinjured, efficient treatment is impractica
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