ON THE FRACTURE OF THE LOWER EXTREMITY OF THE HUMERUS, WITH A
SEPARATION OF THE CONDYLS.
1. Fractures of the humerus, accompanied with a separation of the
condyls, appear to have escaped the notice of most authors who have
written on diseases of the bones. The ancients have transmitted nothing
to us on this point. Petit, Duverney, and Bell, among the moderns,
have made no mention of it. Heister adverts to this fracture of the
bone, only to express an unfavourable prognostic respecting it,
without determining the mode in which it is to be remedied. Yet it is
by no means rare to meet with examples of it in practice. Desault, in
particular, has had frequent occasions to observe it.
§ I.