A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . Fractures at the base of the condyles. (From Gray.) Direction of the Fracture, Displacement, and SymjJtoms.—I thinkthis fracture is generally oblique, and its line of direction upwardsand backwards; in nine of the eleven cases where this point wasdetermined, such has been its apparent direction, and the lower frag-ment has been found drawn up behind the upper. Once I have foundthe lower fragment in front, and once on the outside of the upper. Three of the sixteen were compound comminuted fractures, thisbeing a larger proportion of serious co
A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . Fractures at the base of the condyles. (From Gray.) Direction of the Fracture, Displacement, and SymjJtoms.—I thinkthis fracture is generally oblique, and its line of direction upwardsand backwards; in nine of the eleven cases where this point wasdetermined, such has been its apparent direction, and the lower frag-ment has been found drawn up behind the upper. Once I have foundthe lower fragment in front, and once on the outside of the upper. Three of the sixteen were compound comminuted fractures, thisbeing a larger proportion of serious complications than is usuallyfound in connection with fractures of long bones. I have never met with what I supposed to be a separation of thelower epiphysis, but surgical writers have occasionally spoken of thisaccident, and Dr. Watson, of New York, believes that he has seen oneexample in an infant not quite two years old. The limb had beenviolently wrenched by the mother, in attempting to lift her. She wasnot seen by Dr. Watson until the fourth d
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