A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . cement: A female, set. forty-seven, was admitted into the Rich-mond Hospital, under the care of the late Dr. McDowell, for an injury to thehumerus, the result of a fall upon the shoulder. Five years afterward, thewoman was again admitted, under the care of Mr. Adams, with an extracapsularfracture of the neck of the femur, one month after the occurrence of which shedied, in consequence of an attack of diarrhoea. The shoulder was of coursecarefully examined ; the arm was slightly shortened, the contour of the shoulderwas not as full or round a
A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . cement: A female, set. forty-seven, was admitted into the Rich-mond Hospital, under the care of the late Dr. McDowell, for an injury to thehumerus, the result of a fall upon the shoulder. Five years afterward, thewoman was again admitted, under the care of Mr. Adams, with an extracapsularfracture of the neck of the femur, one month after the occurrence of which shedied, in consequence of an attack of diarrhoea. The shoulder was of coursecarefully examined ; the arm was slightly shortened, the contour of the shoulderwas not as full or round as that of its fellow, and the acromion process was moreprominent than natural. Upon opening the capsular ligament, the head of thehumerus was found to have been driven into the cancellated tissue of the shaft,between the tuberosities, so deeply as to be below the level of the summit of thegreater tubercle; this process had been split off, and displaced outward; itformed an obtuse angle with the outer surface of the shaft of the Fig. 97. ;^;#S^
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