A treatise on fractures, luxations, and other affections of the bones / by P.J. Desault ... wherein his opinions and practice, in such cases, are stated and exemplified ; edited by Xav. Bichat ; with plates ; translated from the French, by Charles Caldwell, M.D. ; with notes, and an appendix containing several late improvements in surgery.

  • Desault, P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph), 1738-1795.
Date:
1811
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    every direction, and the motions will be communicated to the clavicle; but, if a fracture exist, they will be most perceptible in the fragment adjoining the shoulder, and will separate it from that attached to the sternum. This method will seldom deceive us, is easily employ- ed, and subjects the patient to but a momentary pain. SECT. IV. OF ACCIDENTS. 9. We do not generally find fractures of the clavi- cle accompanied by such accidents as the anatomical relations of the parts might lead us to apprehend. The external force being all expended in fracturing the bone, extends but feebly to the brachial plexus, which would be much injured by the shock, were the bone to yield, without breaking, to the action of external bodies striking against it. Hence, without doubt, would arise serious affections, as may be fairly inferred from the analogy of blows on the head and vertebral column, and as is indeed confirmed by certain cases reported by Desault. Case I. Two bricklayers were brought to the Ho- tel-Dieu, who had met with similar accidents. A piece of timber, thrown from a building, in which they were engaged, had struck them, the one on the external part of the left clavicle, the other about the middle of the right. A considerable wound pointed out in each the place on which the blow had been received. But the former, having escaped a fracture, experienced nothing but an acute pain, while the second had the bone broken in two places.