A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . The upper fragment now becomes tilted by the action of the muscles, itsinternal margin ascending in the glenoid cavity, and its outer margin descendinguntil it is arrested by the capsule. If, under these circumstances, the arm iscarried forward and upward to the perpendicular line, the upper fragment orepiphysis will remain fixed, being held fast by the capsule inserted into theouter and posterior margin of the head, while the lower fragment or diaphysis, 1 Robert Smith, op. cit., p. 201. 2 Bertrandi, Durocher, Malgaigne, op. cit., t. i. p.
A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . The upper fragment now becomes tilted by the action of the muscles, itsinternal margin ascending in the glenoid cavity, and its outer margin descendinguntil it is arrested by the capsule. If, under these circumstances, the arm iscarried forward and upward to the perpendicular line, the upper fragment orepiphysis will remain fixed, being held fast by the capsule inserted into theouter and posterior margin of the head, while the lower fragment or diaphysis, 1 Robert Smith, op. cit., p. 201. 2 Bertrandi, Durocher, Malgaigne, op. cit., t. i. p. 60. FRACTURES THROUGH THE SURGICAL NECK, 217 aided by the natural action of the muscles, will move outward and resume itsoriginal position. The correctness of this opinion he has verified by having inthis manner effected the reduction with great ease, in three cases which havecome under his observation. The patients were respectively six, fourteen, andsixteen years of age. In the first case the reduction was effected on the four- Fig 105. Fig.
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