On intra-capsular fracture of cervix femoris with bony union, and an interesting case of urinary calculi / by Alden March.

  • March, Alden, 1795-1869.
Date:
1858
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Credit: On intra-capsular fracture of cervix femoris with bony union, and an interesting case of urinary calculi / by Alden March. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Thus much for the occular demonstrative proof of the exist- ence of a former fracture, and alter giving the historical facts connected with the accident, at the time the fracture was pro- duced, we shall then undertake to demonstrate, that it was com- plete and altogether intra-capsular. If we succeed in establish- ing these two points, the third, that of bony union, we conceive to be self evident. Fred. L , the subject of our morbid specimen, according to the alms house record, died May 18th, 1854, aged 60 ; al- though it is believed that he was not as old by some two or three years. I instituted enquiries of a great number of our old citizens, as to the cause of' Fred's lameness, and the time of its occur- rence. I shall select only a few from the large catalogue ; those that appear to be the most definite, and to the point. A C aged 70, a colored woman,born and had alway lived in Albany, knew Fred and his mother well, when she (the witness) was young, and then a slave. When he the said Fred, was a mere lad, she knew him to be lame and about as much of a cripple as at the time of his death ; also, that he (Fred) had informed her that a shed fell upon him, or that he fell from a shed and injured him severely in the hip, and that was the cause of his lameness. W H , a very reputable colored man, over 70 years of age, had known Fred many years ; and from his earliest acquaintance knew him to be a distorted cripple. ]\/[rs g 5the wife of a late distinguished citizen and states- man, now 83 years of age, says, she knew Fred from childhood until near the time of his death. She very well remembers when he broke his hip or upper part of the thigh bone ; and thinks that he could not have been more than ten or twelve years of age at the time, as she was in the habit of seeing the nurse, or woman who took care of him, carry him up and down stairs on her shoulders during his confinement with the injury ; and also immediately after getting about ; and that he was just