. The principles and practice of modern surgery. other leg; crepitus may be detected if the hand or the stethoscope beplaced on the trochanter, whilst the limb is drawn to its proper lengthand rotated;—the trochanter generally projects less than on the otherside; and the limb may generally be freely moved, although with greatpain, especially if it is abducted. It may be mentioned, that the shortening very often does not occur tillsome days after the accident;—which may be accounted for by supposingthat a part of the ^ro-synovial investment of the neck of the bone w^asnot entirely torn through
. The principles and practice of modern surgery. other leg; crepitus may be detected if the hand or the stethoscope beplaced on the trochanter, whilst the limb is drawn to its proper lengthand rotated;—the trochanter generally projects less than on the otherside; and the limb may generally be freely moved, although with greatpain, especially if it is abducted. It may be mentioned, that the shortening very often does not occur tillsome days after the accident;—which may be accounted for by supposingthat a part of the ^ro-synovial investment of the neck of the bone w^asnot entirely torn through at first, but gave way afterwards during thepatients movement in bed;—sometimes even the whole diameter of the • * In old bed-ridden persons the neck of tlie femur is sometimes so shortened that the headis brought into contact with the shaft; and at the part where the capsidar Ugament is in-serted, the bony texture is sometimes completely absorbed, and its place supplied with a liga-mento-cartilaginous substance; irregular deposits of b
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