. A treatise on dislocations and fractures of the joints. FRACTURE OF THE OLECRANON. 407. apparent. It will be proper, however, in this accident, to keep thearm steadily in the bent position for three weeks after the injury, andthus to make the ligamentous union as short as possible, by leavingthe bone perfectly at rest. SECTION V. FRACTURE Or THE OLECRANON. Symptoms.—This process of the ulna is not unfrequently brokenoff, and the accident is followed by symptoms which render the injuryso evident, that the nature of the case can scarcely be is felt at the back of the elbow, and a
. A treatise on dislocations and fractures of the joints. FRACTURE OF THE OLECRANON. 407. apparent. It will be proper, however, in this accident, to keep thearm steadily in the bent position for three weeks after the injury, andthus to make the ligamentous union as short as possible, by leavingthe bone perfectly at rest. SECTION V. FRACTURE Or THE OLECRANON. Symptoms.—This process of the ulna is not unfrequently brokenoff, and the accident is followed by symptoms which render the injuryso evident, that the nature of the case can scarcely be is felt at the back of the elbow, and a soft swelling is soon pro-duced there, through which the surgeons finger readilysinks into the joint; the olecranon can be felt in a de-tached piece, elevated sometimes half an inch, and some-times two inches, above the portion of the ulna fromwhich it has been broken. This elevated portion of bonemoves readily from side to side, but it is with great diffi-culty drawn downwards; if the arm be bent, the separa-tion between the ulna and the olecranon becomes muchgreater. The patient
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