A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . f the clavicle the accident has either been over-looked entirely or misapprehended. Blandin, who, we have seen, has reportedfive cases of partial fracture of the clavicle with immediate restoration, statesdistinctly that in two of these cases distinguished surgeons of the Hopital Beaujonand Hotel Dieu failed to recognize it. Says Turner: The next I shall descend to is that of the clavicle or collar-bone, which I have found the most frequently overlooked, I think, of any other,till it has been sometimes too late to remedy, especially among th
A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . f the clavicle the accident has either been over-looked entirely or misapprehended. Blandin, who, we have seen, has reportedfive cases of partial fracture of the clavicle with immediate restoration, statesdistinctly that in two of these cases distinguished surgeons of the Hopital Beaujonand Hotel Dieu failed to recognize it. Says Turner: The next I shall descend to is that of the clavicle or collar-bone, which I have found the most frequently overlooked, I think, of any other,till it has been sometimes too late to remedy, especially among the children ofpoor people; for, though they find these little ones to wince, scream, or cry,upon the taking off or putting on their clothes, yet, seeing that they suffer thehandling of their wrists and arms, though it be with pain, they suspect only 90 INCOMPLETE FRACTURES. some sprain or wrench, that will go away of itself, without regarding anythingfurther or looking out for help; whereas, this fracture discovers itself as easily Fig. 30. Fig. Partial fracture with-out restoration of thebone to its natural form. Partial fracture of the clavicle without spontaneous restoration-From nature; taken three weeks after the accident. as most others. For not only the eye, in examining ortaking a view of the part, may plainly perceive a bunch-ing out or protuberance of the bones when the neck isbared for that purpose, with a sinking down in the mid-dle or on one side thereof, which will be still more ob-vious on comparing it with its fellow on the other side;but when it is more obscure, and the bone, as it were,cracked only—a semi-fracture, as we say—yet, by press-ing hard upon the part, from one extremity to the other,you will find your patient crying out when you comeupon the place; and by your fingers, so examining, sometimes perceive a sinkingfurther down, with a crackling of the bone Erichsen, who regards all of these cases as mere bendings of the bones, re-marks
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