The principles of surgery . Ununited clavicle. The two portions of bone aremerely connected by ligamentous substance. density, they are joined vored; and a limb socircumstanced, is, if un-supported by extrinsicaid, almost wholly uselessas an organ either of pre-hension or support. Theoccurrence is more fre-quent in military than incivil practice; for twovery obvious reasons. First, means for duly conducting the treatmentof fracture are less available; secondly, the bruising inflicted by shot-wounds is inimical to satisfactory processes of cure, both in the soft andin the hard tissue
The principles of surgery . Ununited clavicle. The two portions of bone aremerely connected by ligamentous substance. density, they are joined vored; and a limb socircumstanced, is, if un-supported by extrinsicaid, almost wholly uselessas an organ either of pre-hension or support. Theoccurrence is more fre-quent in military than incivil practice; for twovery obvious reasons. First, means for duly conducting the treatmentof fracture are less available; secondly, the bruising inflicted by shot-wounds is inimical to satisfactory processes of cure, both in the soft andin the hard tissues. False joint in the forearm. The bones play on each other, by anew hinge-like joint. Treatment of False Joint. To undo the apparatus of a fractured limb, and to find the solutionof continuity in the bone still unrestored, at the end of four, five, six,seven, or eight weeks, is no demonstration of the expected union havingaltogether failed. It may be that the formation of definitive callusis yet in progress; and, if undisturbed by movement of the limb, thismay be completed in no unreasonable time. The provisional callus has,doubtless, failed; but
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