1 Some Few General Remarks on Fractures and Dislocations

Abstract

I have already said, that in most cases of broken thigh or leg, the method just described will be attended with great success: but there is one particular case in which its utility is still more conspicuous; a case, which according to the general manner of treating it, gives infinite pain and trouble both to the patient and surgeon, and very frequently ends in the lameness and disappointment of the former, and the disgrace and concern of the latter: I mean the fracture of the fibula attended with a dislocation of the tibia.