Illustrations of some of the injuries to which the lower limbs are exposed / by Charles Brandon Trye.
- Charles Brandon Trye
- Date:
- 1802
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Illustrations of some of the injuries to which the lower limbs are exposed / by Charles Brandon Trye. 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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![She died about fix weeks after the accident. The body being laid fupine on a plane, a drawing was made of its appearances, as far as could be reprefented in a front view. A defcription of them is given Avith Plate the fifth. It is ncceffary alfo to defcribe, what could not be re- prefented without a back view,—that there was a confiderable depreffion or hollow on the buttock, owing to the derange- ment of the parts, as well as to the emaciation of the glutcd mufcles. On taking out the thigh bone the capfular liga- ment was found entire and found. The fra6tured parts were united, but not firmly. The neck of the bone was twilled ; the great trochanter being thrown backwards, and the neck of the bone of courfe forwards, fo that the little trochanter lay very near to the head of the bone. The callus was very luxuriant, (fee Plate VI.,) and had puflicd itfelf forwards, making the protuberance near the groin, which has been defcribed above, and which is reprefented in the plate. The trochanter had rifen above the head of the bone. Several little fpines were lliot from the callus. The bone being fawed through longitudinally, the place of union of the fradure could be diflind;ly traced. This is evident in the feventh Plate. Opportunities of diire6ting this cafe in a recent ftate muil be unufual; the accident of itfelf being fcarcely ever fatal. In another woman, who died a month or fix w^eeks after iracluring the neck of the thigh bone, no union of the iradured ends had taken place, but matter had been formed between them—it was not in a large quantity, nor had it been fufpecfted during her life. In both thefe cafes, the fracture was exterior to, and beyond the ca]:)fular ligament, Avhich inc:lofes the acetabulum and part of the neck of the thigh](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21081700_0036.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
