Atlas and epitome of traumatic fractures and dislocations / by H. Helferich ; auth. tr. from the German, ed. by Joseph C. Bloodgood.

  • Helferich, H. (Heinrich), 1851-1945.
Date:
1902
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Credit: Atlas and epitome of traumatic fractures and dislocations / by H. Helferich ; auth. tr. from the German, ed. by Joseph C. Bloodgood. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    r FEB 5 1923 FRACTURES AND DISLOCATIONS I. GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS FRACTURES Fractures may be divided into traumatiG fractures, or those produced by external violence, and spontaneous frac- tures, or those in which the degree of external force that produced them would not be sufficient to cause a fracture in a healthy bone. Spontaneous fractures are attributable to a brittle con- dition of the bones, due, as a rule, to neoplasms, such as sarcoma, metastatic carcinomata, or echinococcus cysts ; to inflammatory disease of the bones, as osteomyelitis with insufficient osteosclerosis (involucra), bone abscess, tuber- cular caries, syphilis [gumma], rachitis [rare], or osteo- malacia ; to nutritive disturbances of the bone in diseases of the spinal cord, such as tabes and syringomyelia ; or to grave disturbances of metabolism, such as osteopsathyrosis (fragility of bone) in gout. The discussion of tliis class of fractures will not find a place in this work, which deals exclusively with traumatic fractures occurring in healthy bones. [Attention should be called here to the fact that not infrequently a fracture, usually associated witli but slight trauma, may be the first sign of a medullary sarcoma. For this reason one should be very suspicious, especially in an adult, of a fracture following an unusually slight trauma. The question of diagnosis could probably be settled by an examination with the Rontgen ray. It is