. A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . , a natural bone-setter, but without success; one hadbeen reduced, but it had become reluxated, and in the remaining ex-ample I was myself unable to reduce the dislocation on the seventhday. The following are brief notes of four of these cases:—A young man, set. 23, presented himself at my office, upon whomthe accident had occurred about one year before. The surgeon whowas first called did not recognize the dislocation, and no attempt hadever been made to replace the bones. The forearm was forcibly pro-nated and could not be supinated, but
. A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . , a natural bone-setter, but without success; one hadbeen reduced, but it had become reluxated, and in the remaining ex-ample I was myself unable to reduce the dislocation on the seventhday. The following are brief notes of four of these cases:—A young man, set. 23, presented himself at my office, upon whomthe accident had occurred about one year before. The surgeon whowas first called did not recognize the dislocation, and no attempt hadever been made to replace the bones. The forearm was forcibly pro-nated and could not be supinated, but he could extend it completely,and flex it somewhat beyond a right angle. It was strong, and nearlyas useful as before. H. H. B., set. 6; dislocation produced by a fall upon the surgeon who was called did not detect the nature of the years after, I found the head of the radius lying in front ofthe old socket, having formed a new socket in which it moved the elbow to the hand the arm inclined outwards, or to the. Head of radius forwards,ance of limb. External appear- 1 Memoire sur les Luxations du Coude, par Paul DenucS. Paris, 1854. DISLOCATION OF HEAD OF RADIUS FORWARDS. 573 radial side; pronation and supination were perfect. He could flexthe arm to an acute angle, but not so completely as the other. Thearm was as strong as the other, but it was frequently hurt by lifting. Ira E. Irish, set. 12. Sweet was at first employed, but failed toreduce it. Thirty-nine years after, when Mr. Irish was fifty-one yearsold, I examined the arm. He could not flex the forearm upon thearm beyond a right angle; and when the attempt was made, the radiusstruck against the humerus. Complete supination was arm was as strong as the other except in raising a weight abovehis head. Occasionally he was annoyed with slight pains in this limb. Urias Lett, a colored barber of Buffalo, aged forty-eight years, wasthrown from a carriage, producing a disloc
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