The treatment of fractures . e coincident injury to the vessels, and the ex-tremity, which had a very severe compound commin-uted fracture of the humerus, had to be amputatedon this account. One man died of cerebritis, result-ing from a severe head injury received at the sametime that his leg was crushed. »So that, except theone case of septicemia (which was the result of theobstinacy and ignorance of the man, and ought notto be classed amongst the conservative attempts),there was no death which could be laid to the con-servative operation. Considering that in nearly allthese cases there were
The treatment of fractures . e coincident injury to the vessels, and the ex-tremity, which had a very severe compound commin-uted fracture of the humerus, had to be amputatedon this account. One man died of cerebritis, result-ing from a severe head injury received at the sametime that his leg was crushed. »So that, except theone case of septicemia (which was the result of theobstinacy and ignorance of the man, and ought notto be classed amongst the conservative attempts),there was no death which could be laid to the con-servative operation. Considering that in nearly allthese cases there were other injuries, many of themquite severe, and all of the patients recovered afterhaving been transported some distance and handleda great deal, without proper protection in most ofthe cases, a record of 55 cured and 9 improved—that is, G4 limbs saved out of 67 attempts, and theoperations have practically been without fatal result—these statistics are very encouraging to surgeonswho have to deal with this class of This illustrates the external appearance of a severe crush of thelower extremity from a railroad injury.
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