A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . it had becomereluxated, and in the remainingexample I was myself unable toreduce the dislocation on the seventhday. The following are brief notes offour of these cases:— A young man, set. 23, presented ance of limb,himself at my office, to whom the accident had occurred about one year before. The surgeon who wasfirst called did not recognize the dislocation, and no attempt had everbeen made to replace the bones. The forearm was forcibly pronatedand could not be supinated, but he could extend it completely, andflex it somewhat beyond a right
A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . it had becomereluxated, and in the remainingexample I was myself unable toreduce the dislocation on the seventhday. The following are brief notes offour of these cases:— A young man, set. 23, presented ance of limb,himself at my office, to whom the accident had occurred about one year before. The surgeon who wasfirst called did not recognize the dislocation, and no attempt had everbeen made to replace the bones. The forearm was forcibly pronatedand could not be supinated, but he could extend it completely, andflex it somewhat beyond a right angle. It was strong, and nearly asuseful as before. H. H. B., set. 6; dislocation produced by a fall upon the surgeon who was called did not detect the nature of the years after, I found the head of the radius lying in front ofthe old socket, having formed a new socket in which it moved the elbow to the hand the arm inclined outwards, or to theradial side; pronation and supination were perfect. He could flex. Head of radius forwards. ExterDal appear 1 Memoire sur les Luxations du Coude, par Paul Denuce. Paris, 1854. 582 DISLOCATIONS OF THE HEAD OF THE RADIUS. the arm to an acute angle, but not so completely as the other. Thearm was as strong as the other, but it was frequently hurt by lifting. Ira E. Irish, set. 12. Sweet was at first employed, but failed toreduce it. Thirty-nine years after, when Mr. Irish was fifty-one yearsold, I examined the arm. He could not flex the forearm upon thearm beyond a right angle; and when the attempt was made, the radiusstruck against the humerus. Complete supination was arm was as strong as the other, except in raising a weight abovehis head. Occasionally he was annoyed with slight pains in this limb. Urias Lett, a colored barber of Buffalo, aged forty-eight years, wasthrown from a carriage, producing dislocation of the right radius, andseverely bruising the elbow-joint. He drove a couple
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