. The American journal of roentgenology, radium therapy and nuclear medicine . ggested an early in-fection. After a period of rest, the symp-toms subsided and the patient was able tospend the summer in a camp where she in-dulged in all the strenuous exercises inci-dent to camp life, and not until she re-turned to the city in September was there the term Non-Traumatic EpiphysealSeparation of the head of the femur, acondition which we previously had held tobe associated with adolescent rickets. Itwas following this examination, that thepatient was taken East and had the casediagnosed as a fractu
. The American journal of roentgenology, radium therapy and nuclear medicine . ggested an early in-fection. After a period of rest, the symp-toms subsided and the patient was able tospend the summer in a camp where she in-dulged in all the strenuous exercises inci-dent to camp life, and not until she re-turned to the city in September was there the term Non-Traumatic EpiphysealSeparation of the head of the femur, acondition which we previously had held tobe associated with adolescent rickets. Itwas following this examination, that thepatient was taken East and had the casediagnosed as a fracture at the neck of thefemur. The literature is entirely concerned withthe question of epiphyseal separations andjuxta-epiphyseal fractures, and the etio-logical factor of trauma is always admitted. One orthopedic school maintained thatpractically every case of epiphyseal separa-tion of the upper end of the femur wasreally one of fracture. This is the view ofWhitman, and he wrote freely on the sub-ject; and no doubt many men in the Eaststill hold the views which he Case I, Plate t,. March 29, 1918. Plate shows a wideepiphyseal separation with disappearance of theepiphyseal line. any development of the former trouble. Asecond examination was made in October,I17, and at this time there was noted thesame mild osteoporosis of the structuresabout the left hip, but in addition there wasreported a disturbance in the epiphysealline at the head of the left femur. In offer-ing a diagnosis at this time, we suggested
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