On fractures and dislocations / by Professor Dr. H. Helferich ; ill. with 68 plates and 126 figures in the text, drawn by B. Keilitz ; tr. from the 3d ed. (1897) with notes and additional illustrations, by J. Hutchinson.

Heinrich Helferich

Date:: 1899

Credit: On fractures and dislocations / by Professor Dr. H. Helferich ; ill. with 68 plates and 126 figures in the text, drawn by B. Keilitz ; tr. from the 3d ed. (1897) with notes and additional illustrations, by J. Hutchinson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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$FBACTUKES OF TIBIA AND FIBULA. rig. I.—Longitudinal or spiral fracture dvie to torsion of tlie lower third of the tibia. From the same case as that represented in figs. 3 a and 3 b, Plate LXIII. It will be noted that the fracture extends into the ankle-joint. Fig. 2.—Fractures from torsion of the lower part of the tibia. Fig. 3.—Badly united fracture in lower third of both bones, witb displacement of the foot in the direction of pes valgus. Figs. 4 a and 4 b.—Fracture above the malleoli united with] marked deformity (pes varus). A normal leg is shown for comparison.$