. A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations. is usually much lower, and isoften associated with comminution of the lower fragment. The aver-age distance is differently estimated, possibly because some have meas-ured from the articular edge of the bone and others from the styloidprocess; but the weight of testimony places it at from one-third tothree-fourths of an inch above the articular Sorder. In the young itsometimes follows the epiphyseal line. Its direction is usually trans-verse, but it may be oblique laterally or antero-posteriorly, and thelower fragment is often comminuted. Th
. A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations. is usually much lower, and isoften associated with comminution of the lower fragment. The aver-age distance is differently estimated, possibly because some have meas-ured from the articular edge of the bone and others from the styloidprocess; but the weight of testimony places it at from one-third tothree-fourths of an inch above the articular Sorder. In the young itsometimes follows the epiphyseal line. Its direction is usually trans-verse, but it may be oblique laterally or antero-posteriorly, and thelower fragment is often comminuted. The lower fragment is some-times displaced bodily backward without crushing, as in Figs. 162 and 1 Colles: Edinburgh Med. and Sursr. Journal, April, 1814, vol. x. p. 182. 2 E. W. Smith: Fractures in the Vicinity of Joints, Am. ed., p. 129. FRACTURES OF THE BONES OF THE FOREARM. J87 1(53, but the displacement appears more often ( be almosi entirelyangular, the lower fragment turning upon its anterior edge as upon a Fig. 162. Fig. L63. Fig.
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