Identifier: practicaltreatis1907stim (find matches)
Title: A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Stimson, Lewis Atterbury, 1844-1917
Subjects: Fractures Dislocations
Publisher: New York Philadelphia : Lea brothers :
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
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may be associated extensive laceration of the softparts on the distal side. In other cases the boneis fissured or split into large fragments on eachside. Occasionally the bone may be simply per-forated or notched, and then broken by the sub-sequent use of the limb. I have seen two suchcases ; in one the patient was shot by a policeman,and as he ran away the femur broke at the pointwhere it had been perforated ; he died of tetanus.In the other, fracture of the leg, the same sequence was observed, butthe patient survived, and the exact character of the injury caused bythe bullet remained unknown. In the case shown in Plate I., in which the ball entered between hffingers and emerged above the elbow after extensively splintering tY Fracture of femur byball from a Lobel rifle;small calibre; high ve-locity. (Chatjvel andNimiee.) PLATE I
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Fracture of Radius by Small Bullet of High Velocity enteringat the Hand and emerging at the Elbow. PLATE II

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