. A treatise on dislocations and fractures of the joints. joint,had united by a ligament only, so as to movereadily upon the ulna, and thus alter the sig-moid cavity of the ulna so much as to allowin extension that bone to glide backwards uponthe condyles of the humerus. Case CCLXXXVII.— I saw a case, says Mr. Liston, of thisfracture, in which the injury arose in consequence of the patient, aboy of eight years, having hung for a long time from the top of a highwall, afraid to drop down. t Treatment.—As to the treatment of this accident, I am doubtfulwhether any mode can completely succeed, as
. A treatise on dislocations and fractures of the joints. joint,had united by a ligament only, so as to movereadily upon the ulna, and thus alter the sig-moid cavity of the ulna so much as to allowin extension that bone to glide backwards uponthe condyles of the humerus. Case CCLXXXVII.— I saw a case, says Mr. Liston, of thisfracture, in which the injury arose in consequence of the patient, aboy of eight years, having hung for a long time from the top of a highwall, afraid to drop down. t Treatment.—As to the treatment of this accident, I am doubtfulwhether any mode can completely succeed, as the coronoid process,like the head of the thigh-bone, loses its ossific nourishment, and hasno other than a ligamentous support. Its life is preserved by thevessels of the reflected portions of the capsular ligament upon theend of the bone, which do not appear capable of supporting the leastattempt at ossific union ; nor is any change on the surface of the bone broken SSBft^tfiSJ «** and the «?«« P— are t Practical Surgery, 3d Edition, p FRACTURE OF THE OLECRANON. 407
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