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an impacted fracture." After six weeks of treatment by long splint and 

 extension, the bone seemed united, but a starch bandage was applied and 

 kept on for some time afterwards as an extra security. In a year or so 

 she had as good use of her limb as she had had before. 



The bone shows the usual appearances produced by a slight 

 amount of impaction of the neck upon the trochanters, i.e. some 

 thickening at the front of the neck and some splitting at the 

 back of the great trochanter. The eversion must have been 

 very slight, and there seems to have been no shortening at all, 

 possibly owing to the extension used in the treatment. Tlie 

 anterior half shows that the cancellous tissue has been reformed 

 with even less indication of fracture than in the previous 

 specimen. G. C. 2905. 



Presented by R. A. Lundie, F.R.C.S.E. 



3. 195. United Impacted Extra-capsular Fracture of the 



Neck. — Right femur of an old person — macerated, showing 

 the above. 



The specimen was taken from a subject in the Dissecting Rooms. 

 The neck has been impacted upon the trochanter, with 

 the usual splitting, and has united. The union, however, has 

 taken place in an unusually oblique position, so that the neck 

 is almost in line with the shaft, and is raised well above the 

 trochanter. The bone is exceedingly light and soft. 



G. C. 3333. 

 Presented by Macdonald Brown, F.R.C.S.E. 



3. 196. United Impacted Extra-capsular Fracture of the 



Neck. — Sections of the upper end of a left femur — macerated, 

 showing the above. 



The patient, a man aged 40, fell from the top of a loaded carrier's 

 cart on to the causeway. Drs D. Clarke and Abercromby diagnosed a, 

 fracture of the neck of the femur from the sliortening, evenion, and 

 crepitus, and sent him into Hospital, where he was treated with the 

 double-inclined plane. The shortening and eversion remained, but he 



