A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . en. This, he thinks, explains the cause of thatfracture when a person falls, forward with the arms stretched directly forward,and being completely flexed at the shoulder.] A gentleman residing in the country was struck by a board which fell edge-wise upon his shoulder. An apparatus was applied to retain the clavicle in itsplace, but after three months, when he called upon me, it still remained dis-placed as at first. On laying off the dressing, I discovered that the coracoidprocess was detached, obeying constantly the movements of the head o
A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . en. This, he thinks, explains the cause of thatfracture when a person falls, forward with the arms stretched directly forward,and being completely flexed at the shoulder.] A gentleman residing in the country was struck by a board which fell edge-wise upon his shoulder. An apparatus was applied to retain the clavicle in itsplace, but after three months, when he called upon me, it still remained dis-placed as at first. On laying off the dressing, I discovered that the coracoidprocess was detached, obeying constantly the movements of the head of thehumerus, but being not at all subject to the movements of the scapula. Thefunctions of the arm were not impaired. A girl fell upon her left shoulder, andsustained a complete luxation of the acromial end of the clavicle, upward andoutward. Upon careful examination, a fracture of the coracoid process wasindicated by both mobility and crepitus. 1 Cin Lancet and Clinic, 1885. 2 Brit. Med Journ., May 19, 1888. 204 FRACTURES OF THE SCAPULA, Fig. Fracture of the coracoid process. Bransby Cooper relates a case of fracture through the base, which after eightweeks, when the patient died, was found to be united by a ligament. The acro-mion process was broken at the same time,and had united in the same manner. Thehead of the humerus was also brokenpartly One example occurredin the practice of Dr. Arnott, London,in consequence of which the patientdied, when a dissection disclosed the truenature of the South has re-ported a case. The humerus was partiallydislocated forward, the clavicle, acromionprocess, and the olecranon were broken aswell as the coracoid process; after thepatient died, on the fourth day, the exist-ence of these fractures was ascertained Holmes has reported a is in the museum of UniversityCollege a preparation showing a fractureat the base of the process, the line of frac-ture extending across the glenoid
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