Ununited fractures in children / by D'Arcy Power.

  • Power, D'Arcy, 1855-1941.
Date:
1892
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    UNUNITED FRACTURES IN CHILDREN. By D'ARCY POWER, M.A., M.B. Oxon, F.R.C.S. Eng., Demonstrator of Surgery at St. Bartholomew's Hospital; Surgeon-in-charge of Out-Patients at the Victoria Hospital for Children, Chelsea. [Reprinted from the International Journal of the Medical Sciences, Vol. 103, 1892.] 'jpHE subject of fractures is'one which has always had a peculiar interest for American surgeons, and the litera- ture in connection with it is therefore very extensive. As I do not find that any surgeon has paid especial attention to ununited fractures occurring in children, I have thought it worth while to put a few notes together, which I hope may prove useful as well as interesting to those surgeons who are attached to children's hospitals, or are otherwise brought into frequent contact with children who have sustained injury. Ununited fractures are undoubtedly rare in children, but nearly every surgeon who has much to do with the treatment of the surgical diseases of children can probably recall one, or perhaps more cases of non-union which have come under his notice. Some of them have been published in the various medical periodicals of the world, and I have recently been at the trouble of collecting and tabulating some of the more accessible. In the unrivalled collection of cases of ununited frnctures compiled by Dr. Frank Muhlenberg, and published in the first volume of Professor Agnew's Principles and Practice of