A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . to the axilla by this cause thirty-one times ; fivetimes by a fall upon the extended hand; threetimes by a fall upon the elbow ; and in these lattercases the arm was probably carried away from thebody at the moment of the receipt of the all the above examples the shoulder has beendislocated by the simple force of the blow, or withonly slight aid from muscular action; but in aconsiderable number of cases the bone is displacedalmost wholly by the action of the muscles, thearm having been previously violently abducted;and perhaps in s
A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . to the axilla by this cause thirty-one times ; fivetimes by a fall upon the extended hand; threetimes by a fall upon the elbow ; and in these lattercases the arm was probably carried away from thebody at the moment of the receipt of the all the above examples the shoulder has beendislocated by the simple force of the blow, or withonly slight aid from muscular action; but in aconsiderable number of cases the bone is displacedalmost wholly by the action of the muscles, thearm having been previously violently abducted;and perhaps in some cases the capsule being tornbefore the resistance of the overstrained muscleshas accomplished the displacement. Thus, in three instances I haveknown the dislocation to result from holding on to the reins after beingthrown from a carriage; in two cases the patients have fallen through ahatchway and been caught and suspended by the arms; once a womanmet with this accident by holding on to a pump-handle when she hadslipped and fallen upon the Subglenoid dislocation. A few years since I examined the arm of a Swiss woman, Maria Norregan,who was tben sixty-five years old, and whose humerus had been dislocated intothe axilla seventeen years before, where it still remained. Her own account ofthe accident was, that she was returning from the Jura Mountains, near Neuf-chatel, with a load of hay upon her head. She had carried it a long way withher hands held upward, without once stopping to rest, and when at length shethrew down the load at her door, the right shoulder was dislocated. The armsoon became very painful, and swollen to the fingers ends; but she was tooremote from, and too poor to employ, a surgeon. A tailor, who used to do theminor surgery of the neighborhood, bled her three or four times, but the dislo-cation was not recognized until many months after. A Mrs. Hunn informed methat when she was twenty-two years old she had a convulsion, and that herattendants in tryi
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