A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations / by Lewis A. Stimson.

  • Stimson, Lewis Atterbury, 1844-1917.
Date:
1912
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Credit: A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations / by Lewis A. Stimson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS. FRACTURES. CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION. PAGE. Definitions, statistics, influences of sex, age, and season 19 CHAPTER II. PATHOLOGY. A. The bone ; varieties of fracture 22 1. Incomplete fractures 23 (a) P'issures ■ • 23 (6) True incomplete, green-stick ; infraction 24 (c) Depressions • • . . . 24 (d) Separation of a splinter or apophysis 24 2. Complete fractures ; subdivided according to 25 (a) Direction and character of the line of fracture 25 (6) The seat of fracture 29 Separation of epiphysis 29 (c) Intra-articular 31 3. Multiple fractures 31 4. Compound fractures 32 5. Gunshot fractures 33 Displacements 37 B. The soft parts 39 CHAPTER III. ETIOLOGY. Predisposing causes .... 41 External, normal, interstitial atrophy 41 Inherited liability 42 Determining causes 42 External violence, direct or indirect 42 Muscular action . . , 43 Spontaneous and pathological fractures ' 47 .^ General diseases 47 Diseases of nerve centres • • • 48 Rachitis, syphilis, rlieuniatism 49 Cancer and sarcoma 50 Cysts, osteomyelitis 51 Intra-uterine, and during delivery 51 CHAPTER IV. EARLY SYMPTOMS AND DIAGNOSIS. Objective signs ' . 53 Deformity (normal asymmetry) 53 Abnormal mobility 54 Crepitus 55 Roentgen rays 56 Subjective or rational symptoms 57 Loss of function; pain 57 History 57