A Handbook of Surgical Pathology; For the Use of Students in the Museum of St. Bartholomew's Hospital
by William Johnson Walsham (9781150329685)

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1878 Original Publisher: Henry Kimpton Subjects: Medical / Pathology Medical / Surgery / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER II. INJURIES OF THE BONES. FEACTURES. GENERAL PATHOLOGY. A Fbactube is defined as a solution of continuity of a bone. Varieties Of Fbacture. Fractures may be divided into simple, compound, incomplete, comminuted, and complicated. Simple, when the bone is broken into two pieces (HL 113). Compound or open, when an external wound communicates with the broken fragments (in. 99, ni. 145.) Incomplete or greenatick (only occurring in children), when the bone is partly broken and partly bent. (No specimen.) Comminuted, when the bone is broken into more than two fragments. (EEL 129.) Complicated, when the fracture is combined with some other injury. (ELL 118, ni. 145.) Causes Of Fbactube. The determining causes of fracture are muscular action or external violence. The violence may be direct or indirect. As the causes of fracture belong more to the study of clinical surgery than to that of pathology, we may dismiss them with the above brief reference. State Of The Parts. The state of the parts, i. e. the condition of the ends of the fragments and of the parts around, will be described and illustrated under " Special Fractures." Process Of Repair In FRACTtJBE. The process of repair in simple fracture will first be described, and afterwards the modifications observed in compound fracture. Eepaib In Simple Fracture. The process in the human subject differs somewhat from that in the lower mammalia. In the latter it has been very completely studied by producing artificial fractures and killing t...

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