Surface Management System Departure Event Data Analysis

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ...process of the ulna was fractured at its base, an event formerly described by surgical authorities as somewhat rare. One wrist showed the ordinary fracture of the lower end of the radius, with outward displacement; the other (Fig. 94) slight impaction of the radius about-2-inch from its lower end, to be detected by noticing the irregularity on the ulnar side of the bone. By the side of and near that projection is a complete longitudinal single fracture of the lower end of the radius, showing a detached portion of a triangular shape in its normal position attached to the radio-ulnar ligament. In a later communication to the same journal, the author expressed an opinion that the true pathology of one of the commonest of fractures (t'.e., Collcs s) requires rewriting in the leading surgical text-books in the English language. In 1899, thanks to ac-rays, one can state that fracture of the ulnar styloid process New York Mrcliezzl News, February 23, 1901, p. 286. '1 British Jlle- iieal Journal, January 2, 1897. FIG. 95.--RARE CHANGE IN Boxn THREE MoNrns AFTER COLLEs s Frmcrunn. Dr. D. Morgan, usually accompanies injuries to the radius in Colles fracture in between 60 to 70 per cent. of the cases. Mr. Thomas has placed another interesting case (Fig. 93) on record. In his opinion this illustrates the rupture of the radio-ulnar ligament described by Mr. Clement Lucas in Guy's Hospital Reports for 1884. Two illustrations shown in former editions of this book furnish a good example of the diagnostic service that the Rtintgen rays can at times afford. They were taken in the early days of x-ray photography from a restless and muscular young man, eighteen years of age, under...