A system of surgery . Fig. 277.— The posterior half of aleft Femur, showing unionafter an impacted intracapsu-lar Fracture, the lines ofwhich are clear. The neckhas been driven almoststraight into the head,producing depression of thetrochanter, slight shortening,and perhaps slight eversion.(Charing Cross Museum, No. 378.) Fig. 276.—A left Femur seen frombehind, showing a recent extra-capsular Fracture. This injuryfollows the lines shown with sur-prising constancy; to completethem, the anterior limb of the Vbelow the small trochanter mustbe carried up along the capsularline to the cleft shown b
A system of surgery . Fig. 277.— The posterior half of aleft Femur, showing unionafter an impacted intracapsu-lar Fracture, the lines ofwhich are clear. The neckhas been driven almoststraight into the head,producing depression of thetrochanter, slight shortening,and perhaps slight eversion.(Charing Cross Museum, No. 378.) Fig. 276.—A left Femur seen frombehind, showing a recent extra-capsular Fracture. This injuryfollows the lines shown with sur-prising constancy; to completethem, the anterior limb of the Vbelow the small trochanter mustbe carried up along the capsularline to the cleft shown betweenthe neck and the upper end ofthe shaft. This specimen wasfrom a man of 67 who fell inalighting from a bus; therewere only half an inch shorteningand slight eversion. Suddendeath occurred two days laterwith dyspnoea, but no emboluswas found. (Charing Cross Mu-seum, No. 379.) unless swol-len by hemorrhage, the trochantericregion is flattened : a hollow may existinstead of the trochanteric prominence,and even w
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