. A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations. r 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 age
. A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations. r 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 zur klin. Chir., 1892, vol. ix. p. 361. FRACTURES OF THE HUMERUS. 241 conjugal cartilage in either, and in one the line of fracture followedthat of the epiphyseal junction for only half an inch. Both, I tliink, Fig. 114. Fig. Separation of upper epiphysis of humerusFig. 116.
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