. A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations. otts fracture with special care in luring thefoot well forward. The more severe form is rare and apparently the result of a fall froma height upon the foot. I have one old specimen of extensive crushing•with fracture of the external malleolus and its displacement backward,but repair has obliterated most of the details. I have seen anotherin the collection of Dr. Daudridge, of Cincinnati, in Avhich the poste-rior half of the tibial plateau is broken off and has united with theback of the tibia after displacement of more than half an inch upw
. A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations. otts fracture with special care in luring thefoot well forward. The more severe form is rare and apparently the result of a fall froma height upon the foot. I have one old specimen of extensive crushing•with fracture of the external malleolus and its displacement backward,but repair has obliterated most of the details. I have seen anotherin the collection of Dr. Daudridge, of Cincinnati, in Avhich the poste-rior half of the tibial plateau is broken off and has united with theback of the tibia after displacement of more than half an inch fibular fragment is rather short and is displaced angularly, theastragalus having slipped outward between it and the tibia ; the inter-nal malleolus is broken off at its base and has accompanied the astrag-alus. In two old cases treated by operation (Figs. 336 and 337j I havefound similar lesions and displacements. Probably under an anaesthetic the general condition, if not the details, See also Backward Dislocation of the Foot. PLATE XXVn.
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