A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . and the radius does not appearto have lost in length. Velpeau has once demonstrated the exist-ence of this fracture in a dissection, but thefracture was accompanied with a fracturealso of the coronoid process; and Berardobtained possession of a similar do not remember to have seen a notice ofany others. Malgaigne affirms, with his usual frankness, that althoughhe has occasionally believed that he had met with it, the autopsy,whenever it has been obtained, has shown that it was rather a sub-luxation than a fracture. On the other ha
A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . and the radius does not appearto have lost in length. Velpeau has once demonstrated the exist-ence of this fracture in a dissection, but thefracture was accompanied with a fracturealso of the coronoid process; and Berardobtained possession of a similar do not remember to have seen a notice ofany others. Malgaigne affirms, with his usual frankness, that althoughhe has occasionally believed that he had met with it, the autopsy,whenever it has been obtained, has shown that it was rather a sub-luxation than a fracture. On the other hand, calls it a notunfrequent accident, but in confirmation of this declaration he citesno examples. While, therefore, the presence of what appear to be the rationaldiagnostic signs has compelled me to record one case as an uncompli-cated fracture of the neck of the radius, and two others as fractures atthis poiot accompanied either with a fracture of the humerus or a dis-location of the ulna, I am prepared to admit that some doubt remains. Fracture of neck of radius (Mat-ters cabinet.) a. Original articu-lating facet, b, b. New articulatingfacets, c. Projecting fragments. Transactions, vol. ix. pp. 157 and 229. FRACTURES OF THE NECK OF THE RADIUS. 269 in my own mind as to whether in either case the fact was clearly ascer-tained ; nor do I think, speaking only of the simple fracture, that it willever be safe to declare positively that we have before us this accident,lest, as has happened many times before, in the final appeal to thatcourt whose judgment waits until after death, our decisions should bereversed. Nothing, perhaps, could more fully illustrate the difficulty of diag-nosis in the case of injuries received in the neighborhood of the headof the radius than the testimony given in the case of Noyes vs. Allen,tried in the Supreme Court at Cambridge, January, 1856, before JudgeBigelow. Mr. Noyes injured his elbow, January 7, 1854, and , who was called immed
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