A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . case occurring ina sailor, who fell thirty feet to the deck of a ship.] Colles, in his paper on this subject, described the fracture as occur-ring always about one inch and a half above the carpal end of the bone ;4but Robert Smith, who has carefully examined all of the cabinet speci-mens he could find, about twenty-three in number, has never seen theline of fracture removed farther than one inch from the lower end of thebone, and in several specimens it was within one-quarter of an inch ofthis extremity. Dupuytren has also described the fra
A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . case occurring ina sailor, who fell thirty feet to the deck of a ship.] Colles, in his paper on this subject, described the fracture as occur-ring always about one inch and a half above the carpal end of the bone ;4but Robert Smith, who has carefully examined all of the cabinet speci-mens he could find, about twenty-three in number, has never seen theline of fracture removed farther than one inch from the lower end of thebone, and in several specimens it was within one-quarter of an inch ofthis extremity. Dupuytren has also described the fracture as occurringfrom three to twelve lines above the joint. 1 Pouteau, (Euvres Posthumes, t. ii. p. 251, 1783; also Nelaton, Chir. Path., t. i. p. 739. 2 St. Louis Med. and Surg. Journ., 1885. 3 Brit. Med. Journ., Dec. 8, 1883. 4 Colles, Ed. Med. and Surg. vol. x. p. 182, 1814. 272 FRACTUKES OF THE RADIUS. M. Trelat1 thinks that in the fractures of old people the line of separation isordinarily quite at the inferior extremity of the Fig. 139. Fig. 140.
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