A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . slings,compresses, nor lotions can be of much service. Yet no harm canarise from employing a simple sling and roller to confine the arm;and it is always proper to enjoin some degree of care in using the armof the injured side. The consolidation will be speedily accomplished,and after a time the ensheathing callus will wholly disappear. If a similar accident should occur in any other of the long bones,as retentive and precautionary means, splints ought to be applied, atleast for a few days. « 2. Partial Fracture without immediate and spontane
A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . slings,compresses, nor lotions can be of much service. Yet no harm canarise from employing a simple sling and roller to confine the arm;and it is always proper to enjoin some degree of care in using the armof the injured side. The consolidation will be speedily accomplished,and after a time the ensheathing callus will wholly disappear. If a similar accident should occur in any other of the long bones,as retentive and precautionary means, splints ought to be applied, atleast for a few days. « 2. Partial Fracture without immediate and spontaneous restoration ofthe bone to its natural form.—The causes of this accident are the samewith those which produce simple bending, or partial fracture with im-mediate and spontaneous restoration, from which latter they differprobably in the greater extent of the bony lesion. Perhaps, also, theydiffer sometimes in the peculiar form and degree of the denticulationat the seat of the fracture; in consequence of which an antagonism of Fig. 22. Fig. Partial fracture of the clavicle without spontaneous restoration. Fromnature ; taken three weeks after the accident. the fibres takes place, preventing a restoration ofthe bone to its original form. They constitute a large majority of those ex-amples of partial fracture which come under ourobservation in the various long bones. In one hun-dred and five fractures of the clavicle, it has beenobserved by me sixteen times. In two hundredand nine fractures of the radius and ulna, it hasoccurred twelve has not happened to me to meet with this fracture in any other bone; but examples have been mentioned as having occurred in the humerus, ribs, femur, tibia, and fibula. Partial fracture with-out restoration . of thebone to its natural form. PARTIAL FRACTURE OF THE LONG BONES. 81 Very few surgeons have spoken of partial fractures in the clavicle,while Jurine, Syme, Liston, Miller, Norris, and many others, havedeclared that it is muc
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