A practical and systematic treatise on fractures and dislocations . truss, with a soft compress. In twenty daysthe union was perfect, no inequality or deformity remaining. FRACTURE OF THE STERNUM. Crushing injuries that break the ribs and the vertebra, areliable to fracture the sternum. The bone, by its articulationwith the clavicles and the cartilages of the true ribs, yieldssufficiently to escape fracture from ordinary violence ; hence,uncomplicated fracture of the sternum is a rare accident. Theelasticity of the costal cartilages and the ribs, which are likehoops, deadens the shock and deco
A practical and systematic treatise on fractures and dislocations . truss, with a soft compress. In twenty daysthe union was perfect, no inequality or deformity remaining. FRACTURE OF THE STERNUM. Crushing injuries that break the ribs and the vertebra, areliable to fracture the sternum. The bone, by its articulationwith the clavicles and the cartilages of the true ribs, yieldssufficiently to escape fracture from ordinary violence ; hence,uncomplicated fracture of the sternum is a rare accident. Theelasticity of the costal cartilages and the ribs, which are likehoops, deadens the shock and decomposes the force of a of the manubrium from the gladiolus, is more fre-quent than true fracture through parts wholly osseous. Inadvanced age, when the original parts of the bone are com-pletely ossified, the point corresponding with the primary divi-sion between the upper two pieces, proves to be the least, fracture generally takes place at that point. () The course of the fractured line is across the bone 102 Fractures. Fm. transversely; and one fragment may be driven in so as to beoverlapped by the other. There may be perceptible displace-ment without one piece getting behind the other. The causes of the injury are generally directviolence, though persons striking on the back,and having the body bend suddenly in a fiill,have sustained fracture of the reports two cases arising from mus-cular action, during parturition. The femaleswere in labor with a first child, and threwback their heads, curving the body celebrated vaulter, whilst bending his bodybackwards in the feat of raising a heavyweight with his teeth, broke the sternum. The symptoms are: a sensation of breakingor cracking at the time of the accident, inter-ference with respiration, and sharp pain at theseat of injury. Crepitation may be producedby manipulating the chest, or by movementsof the body. The displacement, when any ispresent, is decisive in
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