Contributions to medical science / by Alexander Ogston.

  • Ogston, Alexander, 1844-1929
Date:
1869
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Credit: Contributions to medical science / by Alexander Ogston. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and everted limb. On bis death, two years subsequently, the specimen was obtained.” Fig. 3. Fig. 3.—Right femur, united extra-capsular fracture. A, cervical fragment, b, troclianter fragment.' c, fragment formed by tlie shaft, n, new formation of bone. E, groove formed on cervix by acetabulum, e, troclianter minor. The diagnosis of extra-capsular fracture is usually obscured by the amount of swelling and injury of the soft parts, for con¬ siderable violence is required to effect it; but the mode in which the injury was received, the ready crepitation, the large amount of shortening, and the altered relations of the three fragments, might in careful hands be sufficient to insure recognition of the injury.