The American journal of the medical sciences (1827)
[Thorofare, N.J., etc.] Charles B. Slack [etc.] · leaf 569
, Feb. 14. The ulcer healed; the patient up about the house. Dislocation of the First Phalanx of the Thumb upon the Dorsum of the Metacarpal Bone. By Benjamin Cutter, M. D., of Woburn, Mass.1 This dislocation is generally caused by a severe blow received on the end of the thumb, when the arm is… … carpus, it is easily replaced. On looking through authors on dislocations, both ancient and modern, mention will be found of great difficulty in treating this dislocation, and no easy method of reduction suggested. Many powerful in- struments for traction have been devised, and cases of tearing off…
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