. A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations. AL BONES. AVhile simple fracture of a metacarpal bone is not a very commonaccident, still it is not so rare as some authors have inferred from hos-pital statistics. Malgaigne found 16 cases in a total of 2377 fracturesof all kinds treated at the Hotel-Dieu, a percentage of ; Polaillon,64 cases in a total of 5517 fractures treated in the Paris hospitalsduring the years 1861-63, a percentage of Of Polaillons 64cases, 57 were men, only two were old, and none were infants. The third and fourth are most frequently broken, the first an
. A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations. AL BONES. AVhile simple fracture of a metacarpal bone is not a very commonaccident, still it is not so rare as some authors have inferred from hos-pital statistics. Malgaigne found 16 cases in a total of 2377 fracturesof all kinds treated at the Hotel-Dieu, a percentage of ; Polaillon,64 cases in a total of 5517 fractures treated in the Paris hospitalsduring the years 1861-63, a percentage of Of Polaillons 64cases, 57 were men, only two were old, and none were infants. The third and fourth are most frequently broken, the first and fifthleast. Simultaneous fracture of two or more is frequent when theinjury is compound. A very few cases of probable separation of the distal epiphysis havebeen recorded, one by Malgaigne, one by Hamilton, and one quotedby Polaillon from a thesis by Pichon, the ages being nine, eight, andtwelve years respectively. There Avas failure of union in Malgaignescase, but without disturbance of function w^hen last seen, thirteen years Fig. 219. Fig.
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