. A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations. Fig. Sepa ration of the upper epiphysis of the humerus : dis-placement forward of the lower fragment. (Mooke.) Vpper epiphysis of the humerus at10 years; separated by side. (Mooke.) the teres minor. Its centre is Mgher than its edge, so that the shaftterminates in a low cone or wedge, Avith a corresponding holloAV onthe under surface of the epiphysis. This cone is very low in earlylife and its height increases as the individual grows older, until ossi-fication of the conjugal cartilage takes place, usually by the twen
. A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations. Fig. Sepa ration of the upper epiphysis of the humerus : dis-placement forward of the lower fragment. (Mooke.) Vpper epiphysis of the humerus at10 years; separated by side. (Mooke.) the teres minor. Its centre is Mgher than its edge, so that the shaftterminates in a low cone or wedge, Avith a corresponding holloAV onthe under surface of the epiphysis. This cone is very low in earlylife and its height increases as the individual grows older, until ossi-fication of the conjugal cartilage takes place, usually by the twentiethyear, but sometimes as late as the twenty-fifth. This lesion has been observed at all ages between the moment ofbirth and the age of nineteen years. Jetter,^ in an account of sixteencases operated upon by Bruns, mentions two aged twenty-threeand twenty-four years, but no mention is made of the presence of the 1 Jossel: Deutsche Zeitschrift fiir Chir., 1874, vol. iv. p. 125. 2 Engel: Arch, fiir klin. Chir., 1897, vol. Iv, p. : Beitriige z
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