Remarks on interstitial absorption of the neck of the thigh-bone / by Benjamin Bell.

  • Bell, Benjamin, 1802-1843.
Date:
1824
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Credit: Remarks on interstitial absorption of the neck of the thigh-bone / by Benjamin Bell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    cliollerick people are very difficile, and in very old people be very unpossible It does not seem to me to be necessary to bring forward any farther proofs of the opinions which the older authors entertained relative to the fracture of the neck of the thigh-bone. I may merely remark, however, that Petit f regarded fracture of the neck of the Femur as an accident similar in every respect to the same kind of injuries occurring in other parts, and directs the same line of practice to be pursued in the treatment of it. Heister, who wrote several years afterwards, condemns the doctrine of Petit relative to the cure of the frac¬ tured cervix femoris, and observes also, that trans¬ verse fractures in that situation are more likely to terminate in union than those which are oblique. 44 Namque musculi, valde robusti, vehementissime, hie contracti, partem ossis inferiorem quam validis- sime simul sursum attrahunt, adeoque non nisi per maximam vim adhibitam extenduntur atque in sedes suas reponuntur. Ita etiam oblique fracta femorum ossa longe facilius, ac ea, quas transversa, fracta sunt, rursus e sede naturali recedunt, fereque * A Discourse of the whole Art of Chirurgerie, compiled by Peter Lowe, a Scotsman, Ordinary Chirurgeon to the French King, London, 3d edition, 1634. t Petit, Traite de Malad. des Os. Paris, 1705.
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