A system of surgery : pathological, diagnostic, therapeutic, and operative . Fracture of the acetabulum. 914 DISEASES AND INJUEIES OF BONES. chap. tiii. outside and inside the pelvis. The most frightful accidents of this kind -that havefallen under my observation have been the result of railway injury, caused bythe body being jammed in between a car and a wall, literally crushing the bone,and fatally implicating the bladder and other organs. The symj:itoms will necessarily vary according to the seat and extent of thefracture. When the bone hxis given way at the cotyloid cavity, the nature ofth
A system of surgery : pathological, diagnostic, therapeutic, and operative . Fracture of the acetabulum. 914 DISEASES AND INJUEIES OF BONES. chap. tiii. outside and inside the pelvis. The most frightful accidents of this kind -that havefallen under my observation have been the result of railway injury, caused bythe body being jammed in between a car and a wall, literally crushing the bone,and fatally implicating the bladder and other organs. The symj:itoms will necessarily vary according to the seat and extent of thefracture. When the bone hxis given way at the cotyloid cavity, the nature ofthe case may usually be recognized by the circumstance that the head of thefemur is drawn upwards, and the great trochanter somewhat forwards, so that thelimb is diminished in length, and the foot inverted. When the head of the thigh-bone is impacted in its new position, the limb may be firmly fixed, as in dislo-cation, but, in general, it will be found to be more or less movable, and to afforda distinct crepitus when an attempt is made to rotate it. b. In fracture of the p
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