. A treatise on dislocations and fractures of the joints. formed between the twotrochanters, and there was a kind of joint produced between the trochanter minorand the bone on the capsular ligament.—Ed. WITHIN THE CAPSULAR LIGAMENT. 129 tively these two preparations, and cannot perceive one decisive proof ineither, of the bones having been actually fractured. Mr. Stanley, for whom I have great respect, both as an anatomistand a surgeon, has met with the appearance of fracture in the neckof each thigh-bone, in the same subject. I do not mean to deny thepossibility of the necks of both thigh-bon
. A treatise on dislocations and fractures of the joints. formed between the twotrochanters, and there was a kind of joint produced between the trochanter minorand the bone on the capsular ligament.—Ed. WITHIN THE CAPSULAR LIGAMENT. 129 tively these two preparations, and cannot perceive one decisive proof ineither, of the bones having been actually fractured. Mr. Stanley, for whom I have great respect, both as an anatomistand a surgeon, has met with the appearance of fracture in the neckof each thigh-bone, in the same subject. I do not mean to deny thepossibility of the necks of both thigh-bones in this subject havingbeen fractured, because that point can only be determined by thehistory of the accident, and by a very careful and accurate examinationof several sections of the bones ; but I can show that similar effectsare produced by disease. And I proceed to speak of certain changesoften occurring in the neck of the thigh-bone, which have been mis-taken for united fractures. The neck of the thighbone in adult persons of middle age, has a.
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