A system of surgery : pathological, diagnostic, therapeutic, and operative . Fracture of the spinous process. Fracture of the vertebral arches. Fracture of the arches of these bones, of which the accompanying cut, fig. 383,affoids a good illustration, is often comminuted and attended with depression ofthe fragments, some of which may be driven into the substance of the spinalcord, crushing and pulpifying it. It is generally produced by violence directly 912 DISEASES AND INJUKIES OF BONES. CHAP. vrii. Fig. 384. applied, and is frequently quite as dangerous as a fracture of the bodies of thevert
A system of surgery : pathological, diagnostic, therapeutic, and operative . Fracture of the spinous process. Fracture of the vertebral arches. Fracture of the arches of these bones, of which the accompanying cut, fig. 383,affoids a good illustration, is often comminuted and attended with depression ofthe fragments, some of which may be driven into the substance of the spinalcord, crushing and pulpifying it. It is generally produced by violence directly 912 DISEASES AND INJUKIES OF BONES. CHAP. vrii. Fig. 384. applied, and is frequently quite as dangerous as a fracture of the bodies of thevertebrae. The transverse processes of the vertebrae can only be broken, as a general rule,by excessive force, as the passage of a ball, or a fall from a considerable the result of such accidents is commonly very unfavorable. The diagnosis of fracture of the spine is usually a matter of inference ratherthan of positive conviction. Its most important elements are the mode of pro-duction of the injury, and the paralysis of the extremities, but it should berecollect
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