A system of surgery / Benjamin Bell . h pain and tendon overthe injured part 5 and by the limb beingrendered unable to fuftain the body. It is often difficult, however, to diftin-guifh fractures of the neck of the femurfrom dillocations of this bone. A dueattention to the following circumflanceswill enable us in moil inftances to avoidmiflakes of this kind, which are alwaysattended with ferious confequences. In a great proportion of cafes, perhapsin nineteen of twenty, the head of thefemur when diflocated is pufhed inwardsand downwards, owing to the brim ofthe acetabulum being not fo deep in t
A system of surgery / Benjamin Bell . h pain and tendon overthe injured part 5 and by the limb beingrendered unable to fuftain the body. It is often difficult, however, to diftin-guifh fractures of the neck of the femurfrom dillocations of this bone. A dueattention to the following circumflanceswill enable us in moil inftances to avoidmiflakes of this kind, which are alwaysattended with ferious confequences. In a great proportion of cafes, perhapsin nineteen of twenty, the head of thefemur when diflocated is pufhed inwardsand downwards, owing to the brim ofthe acetabulum being not fo deep in thispart as in others, as well as to the mufclesat this particular part being not fo flrong;while perhaps in an equal number offractures in the neck of the femur, thebone is pufhed upwards, owing to acci-dents of this kind happening moft fre-quently from falls upon the knees, orperhaps upon the feet when the legs areftretched out, by which a very considerableforce is neceflarily brought to act againft the PXiATE. XXXI I^rchx. IlGr. TlG:3.
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