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was able to go about, wearing a high-heeled boot, and with the aid of a 

 stick. Five years after the injury the man died of some pulmonary 

 affection. 



The signs of impaction and splitting seen in the previous 

 specimens are here well marked, and there has been consider- 

 able shortening and eversion. The restoration of the cancel- 

 lous tissue without indication of the line of fracture is quite 

 complete. G. C. 722. 



Presented by Dr Clakke, 1824. 



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

 Neck, with Chronic Ostitis of the Shaft.— Eight femur 

 of an elderly person — macerated, showing the above. 



There has been much eversion and considerable shortening. 

 The whole shaft of the bone is thickened and increased in 

 weight. The great trochanter has been split by the impaction 

 upon it of the neck, but there is nothing in the specimen to 

 indicate whether the ostitis has followed the fracture or was 

 there when the bone was broken. B. C. i. 1. M. 33. h. 



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



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

 the above. 



The great trochanter has been split by the impaction of 

 the neck upon it, as in the previous specimens. There has 

 been marked shortening and eversion. The bone is very light, 

 and there seems to have been a process of absorption going on 

 in the head of the bone. F. P. C. 582. 



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

 Neck. — Anterior half of the upper end of the right and 

 posterior half of that of the left femur of an elderly person — • 

 macerated, to show the effects of a healed fracture on the right 

 side. 



