. A treatise on dislocations and fractures of the joints. ly of blood must be cut off from that portion attached to the headexcepting to its articular cartilage, which does not seem capable of maintainingossific deposition; and hence arises a preven-tive to ossific union of the neck of the thigh-bone. And lastly, let it be remembered thatall articulating extremities of the long bones areattached to their shafts or bodies by epiphyses,structures which are subjected both duringgrowth and reparation to quite different lawsfrom those which regulate the developmentand functional power of the osseou
. A treatise on dislocations and fractures of the joints. ly of blood must be cut off from that portion attached to the headexcepting to its articular cartilage, which does not seem capable of maintainingossific deposition; and hence arises a preven-tive to ossific union of the neck of the thigh-bone. And lastly, let it be remembered thatall articulating extremities of the long bones areattached to their shafts or bodies by epiphyses,structures which are subjected both duringgrowth and reparation to quite different lawsfrom those which regulate the developmentand functional power of the osseous systemgenerally. I do not believe in bony union of the neck ofthe thigh-bone, where solution of continuityhas occurred; and no cases have been publishedwhich militate against this opinion. But if thefractured surfaces be not separated, then theirconsolidation is effected in the same manner aswhen shafts of long bones have been ultimatelybrought in contact by the shrinking of a provi-sional callus; or as flat bones repair from thefractured edges.— WITHIN THE CAPSULAR LIGAMENT. 137 inconvenience, for he walked on board to exhibit himself to thesurgery-man. From finding him ranked up with the sick of the hulkon my morning visit of the 26th, from his walking on board, andfrom his own account of the accident, I did not suspect any seriousinjury of the joint, and treated the case as one of concussion. Onthe 29th, however, he complained of a very sudden and very agonizingaccession of pain, which induced me to subject him to a more criticalexBmination. No evident alteration in the size of either hip could bediscerned, but a shortening of the limb was conspicuous, which wasrendered more evident by making him stand on the sound limb;extension removed this difference, but, on being freed from restraint,it again assumed its morbid shape ; the knee and foot were everted,and rotation greatly increased his pain. I removed him to the hospital as a case of fracture within thecapsule, bu
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