A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . an aged sixty years, who had been knocked down in the street. On beingadmitted into St. Bartholomews Hospital, shortly after the injury, he com-plained of pain in the hip, but there was neither shortening nor eversion of thelimb, and its several motions could be executed with freedom and power. Afracture was not suspected; but five weeks after this he died of inflammation ofthe bowels. The dissection showed a fracture extending through the neck,accompanied with a slight bloody effusion, but no displacement of the fragmentsor laceration of th
A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . an aged sixty years, who had been knocked down in the street. On beingadmitted into St. Bartholomews Hospital, shortly after the injury, he com-plained of pain in the hip, but there was neither shortening nor eversion of thelimb, and its several motions could be executed with freedom and power. Afracture was not suspected; but five weeks after this he died of inflammation ofthe bowels. The dissection showed a fracture extending through the neck,accompanied with a slight bloody effusion, but no displacement of the fragmentsor laceration of the soft In other examples the bone is not only broken, but displaced to suchan extent that the capsule is completely torn in two. But in a largemajority of cases both the capsule and the periosteum are only partiallytorn asunder. The intracapsular fracture is generally somewhat oblique,and its direction is usually from above downward, and from within out-ward. Sometimes its direction is such as to include a portion of the Fig. 198. Fig.
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