A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . leg of a dog, found the fibula bent without a results were obtained by Duhamel upon a lamb; by Trojaupon a pigeon; and I have myself twice succeeded in bending thefibula while breaking the tibia. The possibility of simple curvatureis then not contestable (the writer means to say that the possibilityof a simple curvature remaining permanently bent, is not contestable), but we must observe that they have never been obtained exceptupon young animals, and that they have been unable to maintainthemselves permanently except throug
A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . leg of a dog, found the fibula bent without a results were obtained by Duhamel upon a lamb; by Trojaupon a pigeon; and I have myself twice succeeded in bending thefibula while breaking the tibia. The possibility of simple curvatureis then not contestable (the writer means to say that the possibilityof a simple curvature remaining permanently bent, is not contestable), but we must observe that they have never been obtained exceptupon young animals, and that they have been unable to maintainthemselves permanently except through the aid of a fracture and dis-placement of a neighboring bone; and there is a wide differencebetween these and those pretended curvatures which some believethey have seen in man, in which the curved bone maintains itself,.and resists perfect redaction until the fracture is In this single paragraph Malgaigne seems to have given a fair sum- Traite des Frac, etc., par L. F. Malgaigne, torn. i. p. 48. BENDING OF THE LONG BOXES. 75 Fig. mary of the testimony upon this point. With the exception of theseand a few other similar examples, some of which I think I have ob-served myself, where one of the bones of the forearm has been brokenand the other bent, I know of no well-attested cases of a permanentbending; using the term bending in a sense distinguished from a par-tial fracture. If, in numerous cases mentioned by surgical writers, there has seemedto be probable evidence that the permanent bending was unaccompa-nied with fracture, there has always been wanting, sofar as I know, the positive evidence of dissection. Theexample of partial fracture mentioned by Fergusson,and represented by a drawing, is described as havingalso, toward the lower extremity, a slight indentationand This was the radius of a child ; but howlong the child survived the accident, and what was thecondition of the ulna, we are not informed. The obser-vations made by Jurine, of Geneva, in
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