FRACTURES. 



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(Fig. 252), and it may be longitudinal or lengthwise. In a com- 

 plete fracture, especially of the oblique kind, there is a condition 

 of great importance in respect to its effect upon the ultimate re- 

 sult of the treatment, in the fact that from various causes, such as 

 muscular contractions or excessive motion, the bony fragments do 

 not maintain their mutual coaptation, but become separated at the 

 ends, and this fact has made it necessary to add another descrip- 

 tive term in the words — with displacement. And this term again 

 suggests its negative, and introduces the fracture without displace- 



FiG. 251.— Transverse 

 Fracture of the Radius. 



Fis. 252.— Oblique Frac- 

 ture of the Femur. 



