A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . duce old dislocations of theradius and ulna backwards, and I have not regretted the occurrence,since it enabled me to reduce the dislocations without cutting the triceps. CHAPTER XXIII. FRACTURES OF THE RADIUS AND ULNA. Causes.—In a large majority of the examples of this fracture seenby me, which have been of such a character as to warrant an attemptto save the limb, the accident has been occasioned by a fall upon thepalm of the hand wThile the arm was extended in front of the this cause is not so constant as in fractures of the rad
A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . duce old dislocations of theradius and ulna backwards, and I have not regretted the occurrence,since it enabled me to reduce the dislocations without cutting the triceps. CHAPTER XXIII. FRACTURES OF THE RADIUS AND ULNA. Causes.—In a large majority of the examples of this fracture seenby me, which have been of such a character as to warrant an attemptto save the limb, the accident has been occasioned by a fall upon thepalm of the hand wThile the arm was extended in front of the this cause is not so constant as in fractures of the radius alone,since a considerable number have been occasioned by direct blows;and if we were to add to this estimate all of those bad compound frac-tures which have demanded immediate amputation, the proportion offractures occasioned by direct and indirect blows might be found to bepretty nearly balanced. Point of Fracture, Character, Direction of Displacement, etc.—In arecord of sixty-three fractures of both bones, not including gunshot Fig. Fracture in the middle third. fractures, or those demanding immediate amputation, I have found sixbroken in the upper third, twenty-five in the middle third, and thirty-two in the lower third. In one case the radius was broken three-quarters of an inch aboveits lower end, and the ulna about one inch below the coronoid of the fractures belonging to the lower third were probably epi-physeal separations. Forty-nine were simple, eight compound, one was comminuted, threeboth compound and comminuted, one complicated with a fracture ofthe humerus, and one with a partial luxation of the lower end of the FRACTURES OF THE RADIUS AND ULNA. 333 radius. With three exceptions, all of these more serious accidentswere arranged among fractures of the lower third, and generally thebones had been broken near the wrist. Partial fractures have been frequently observed, but having treatedof these accidents fully in the general chapter on Inc
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