A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . Intracapsular fracture. Ununited. Op-posite surfaces irregularly convex and con-cave, and polished ; moving slightly uponeach other. (From a specimen in the pos-session of Dr. Josiah Crosby.) Mayos specimen. United by lived nine months after the trochanter minor arrested the descentof the head. (From Sir A. Cooper.) A permanent shortening is the invariable result of this accident; anda few succumb rapidly to the injury, perishing from a low, irritativefever, or from gradual exhaustion, within a month or two from
A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . Intracapsular fracture. Ununited. Op-posite surfaces irregularly convex and con-cave, and polished ; moving slightly uponeach other. (From a specimen in the pos-session of Dr. Josiah Crosby.) Mayos specimen. United by lived nine months after the trochanter minor arrested the descentof the head. (From Sir A. Cooper.) A permanent shortening is the invariable result of this accident; anda few succumb rapidly to the injury, perishing from a low, irritativefever, or from gradual exhaustion, within a month or two from the timeof its occurrence. Says Robert Smith : Our prognosis, in cases of fracture of the neck of thefemur, must always be unfavorable. In many instances the injury soon provesfatal, and in all the functions of the limb are forever impaired; no matterwhether the fracture has taken place within or external to the capsule—whetherit has united by ligament or bone—shortening of the limb and lameness are theinevitable results. Dr. Hyde, of this cit
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