. The principles and practice of modern surgery. houlder or the inferior anglewith the other. Treatment.—A roller must be passed round the trunk, and a few turnsbe made round the humerus, so as to fix the arm to the side, and preventall motion. Bleeding, or at all events purging and low diet, will berequired to avert inflammation of the chest. Fracture of the Neck of the Scapula, by which is meant anoblique fracture, detaching the coracoid process and glenoid cavity fromthe rest of the bone, is a rare accident, insomuch that some surgeons : doubt its existence.* The symptoms described by Sir A
. The principles and practice of modern surgery. houlder or the inferior anglewith the other. Treatment.—A roller must be passed round the trunk, and a few turnsbe made round the humerus, so as to fix the arm to the side, and preventall motion. Bleeding, or at all events purging and low diet, will berequired to avert inflammation of the chest. Fracture of the Neck of the Scapula, by which is meant anoblique fracture, detaching the coracoid process and glenoid cavity fromthe rest of the bone, is a rare accident, insomuch that some surgeons : doubt its existence.* The symptoms described by Sir Astley Cooper, are the following:— j; The shoulder appears sunk, and the arm lengthened; the acromion isunusually prominent, and the deltoid dragged down and flattened; the * Mr. May, of Reading, relates a case of this fracture (Med. Gaz., Sth Oct., 1842), happen-, ing to a young lady, and caused by her throwing her necklace over her shoulder. He ascer-\ tained that there was no dislocation, and no fracture either of the hmnerus or 232 FRACTURE OF THE SCAPULA. Fig. 24.
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