CHAPTER V

INJURIES TO THE BONES OF THE LIMBS

Nature of wounds--Explosive wounds--Types of fracture of shafts

of long bones--Stellate, wedge, notch, oblique, transverse,

perforating--Fractures by old types of bullet--Lesions of the short and

flat bones--Special character of the symptoms in gunshot fracture, and

of the course of healing--Prognosis--Treatment--Special fractures--Upper

extremity--Pelvis--Lower extremity 154

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