A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . E. W. Smiths ease of double congenital backwarddislocation. Right humerus of the samecase. Gaillard2 relates the case of a female child whose left arm was discovered tobe deformed a few days after birth, and the elbow separated from the , the arm was found to be nearly immovable, and only at the end of fouryears was the dislocation recognized; but no attempt at reduction was thenmade. When sixteen years old, she was seen by Gaillard, who found the headof the humerus in the infraspinous fossa. The scapula, clavicle, and arm werepret
A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . E. W. Smiths ease of double congenital backwarddislocation. Right humerus of the samecase. Gaillard2 relates the case of a female child whose left arm was discovered tobe deformed a few days after birth, and the elbow separated from the , the arm was found to be nearly immovable, and only at the end of fouryears was the dislocation recognized; but no attempt at reduction was thenmade. When sixteen years old, she was seen by Gaillard, who found the headof the humerus in the infraspinous fossa. The scapula, clavicle, and arm werepreternaturally small; the forearm, although well developed, could not be com-pletely extended nor supinated. Despite these unfavorable circumstances,Gaillard determined to make an attempt to accomplish the reduction. Fourtimes in the space of eight days he submitted the arms to extension made atright angles with the body, by means of sixteen-pound weights, the extensionbeing continued from twenty to twenty-five minutes, and occasionally his ownexertio
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