. Confederate States medical & surgical journal . come to permit of their attachment to the tro-1863; at the affair at Bristow, October 14th, was wounded by chanter minor being divided. The capsule of the joint wasa Minio ball, entering in front and rather to the outside of i now opened. It was found impossible, owing to the short-the median line of the left thigh, about two inches below i ucss of this portion of the bone left, to dislocate with facilityPouparts ligament, fracturing and comminuting the femur ! the head of the femur, so as to prevent the division of theand making its exit on th
. Confederate States medical & surgical journal . come to permit of their attachment to the tro-1863; at the affair at Bristow, October 14th, was wounded by chanter minor being divided. The capsule of the joint wasa Minio ball, entering in front and rather to the outside of i now opened. It was found impossible, owing to the short-the median line of the left thigh, about two inches below i ucss of this portion of the bone left, to dislocate with facilityPouparts ligament, fracturing and comminuting the femur ! the head of the femur, so as to prevent the division of theand making its exit on the outer and lower side of the ! ligamentum teres. Partial dislocation was produced by twist-limb, rather higher than the point of entrance. A straight ing the head of the bone violently at the ligament had been applied to the limb, and he had been trans- The wound was now cleansed of many large fragments andported one hundred and sixty miles over a rough country road ! sharp spicules of bone that were imbedoBBrin clots, from which. August 11th. He complained of great pain in the kneeand ankle; the slightest touch produced great anguish; con-siderable oedema of the foot existed. Chloroform was admin-istered, and the wound examined. The finger could not passdeeper than half an inch in the wound until the limb wascarried forward; then it passed to the cotyloid cavity; theball was felt in the acetabalum; the round ligament was sev-ered and the head of the bone slightly fractured, and deprived «of all of its cartilage. The patient was laid on his face bythe femur was found drawn directly across the thigh by the; the edge of the table; an incision on the trochanter major,contraction of the psoas maguus and the illiacus internus down through the tissues to the joint, was made, as in the V great force, the contraction of the muscles was the leg under the table, a spatula placed to protect the tissues,
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