A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . e, the forearm ought tobe laid across the back. Crepitus, which is notalways present, owing to the fact that the fragments overlap com-pletely, or because they have been widely separated by the actionof the muscles, may generally be detected by placing the palm of thehand upon some portion of the scapula, so as to steady the fragmentupon which it rests, while the arm is moved backwards and forwards,and in various other directions, until their broken surfaces are broughtinto contact. Some degree of embarrassment in the motions of the shoulder
A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . e, the forearm ought tobe laid across the back. Crepitus, which is notalways present, owing to the fact that the fragments overlap com-pletely, or because they have been widely separated by the actionof the muscles, may generally be detected by placing the palm of thehand upon some portion of the scapula, so as to steady the fragmentupon which it rests, while the arm is moved backwards and forwards,and in various other directions, until their broken surfaces are broughtinto contact. Some degree of embarrassment in the motions of the shoulder andarm must always result from this fracture; sometimes this embarrass-ment is very great, but it ought not to be considered ever as diagnosticof a fracture, since it may be produced equally by a severe contusion ;and even when it is accompanied with a fracture, it is due rather tothe contusion than to the fracture. Pathology, Seat, Direction, &c.—Of incomplete fractures of the sca-pula, I have already mentioned that I have seen one Fracture of the posterior angle of scapula, with collection, specimen C. No. 1S7. 204 FRACTURES OF THE SCAPULA.
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