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Excerpt from The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, 1865, Vol. 50 The osseous framework of the human body is exposed to a considerable variety of lesions occasioned by violence; and, if we inquire at length into the causation of these injuries, it will be found that they are the necessary results oii products of physical forces brought into activity by accidents, by design, or by war. The traumatic lesions of bone embrace a wide field, and present a subject of deep interest to every surgeon. An enumeration of the most important of them will assist us to estimate aright the extent and importance of the subject. Considered apart from the injury of the soft parts with which these osseous lesions may be accompanied, they em brace firstly, simple fracture, I secondly, comminuted fracture, i. C., frac ture with splintering, Shattering, or crushing of the broken bone, and thirdly, wounds of bone. The term fracture can, with propriety, be applied only to a forcible solution of the continuity which extends through the whole thickness of a bone; while the term wounds of bone embraces those other solutions of the osseous continuity, occasioned by violence, which do not extend through the whole thickness of it. 4. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.