The American journal of the medical sciences (1827)
[Thorofare, N.J., etc.] Charles B. Slack [etc.] · leaf 313
of Great Britain, were extensively admitted as correct. At Edinburgh, I showed it to that distinguished surgeon, John Thompson, whose work on inflammation had given him extensive notoriety. On care- fully inspecting it, he declared, " upon his truth and honour," that it had never been broken. An… … The professional gentlemen of our country who have examined these specimens, unhesitatingly pronounce this to be a case of union by bone of intra-capsular fracture. Case II. — Mr. N., a corpulent man, aged 51, on getting out of his chaise, fell upon his left hip, and was unable to walk. I saw him…
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