Broken Leg Research Articles

A CASE OF PERNICIOUS ANEMIA

In the following case the patient has been under my observation during the past two years, commencing June 21, 1908. The case is a typical one of the severe type and illustrates the remissions which are so characteristic of the condition and also the manner in which the condition for the time being responds to arsenic. Patient.— D. N., unmarried, farmer, Irish, aged 58. His father died at 86; his mother died at 73 of pneumonia. Brothers all alive and well; two sisters died in infancy. History.— He had a broken leg live years ago, otherwise he has always been healthy. He has been an exceptionally hard drinker for a number of years, and is frequently drunk for days at a time. Six months ago he took cold after exposure during a drunken spree and has not recovered. He complains of general weakness especially of the legs, shortness of breath,

A Broken Pigeon's Leg That Healed Itself

A Broken Pigeon's Leg That Healed Itself

THE APPLICATION OF THE AMBULANT METHOD IN FRACTURE OF THE LEG IN CHILDREN.

I wish to call attention to the possibility of applying the ambulant method to leg fractures in children, and to discuss the method used and results obtained in fractures occurring in children from the age when they first begin to walk up to the age of puperty, say 14 years. This was discussed, in a measure, by the writer at the New York Academy of Medicine, Jan. 11, 1897, and reported in the Medical News Feb. 13, 1897. When we consider how trying a long confinement is to the young and growing child, how rapidly a general muscular atrophy develops, how easily the onset of anemia presents itself, how insidiously a latent cachexia may develop, the possibility of auto-infection occurring at the site of trauma, we realize to some extent the risks of keeping our fracture cases in bed. A method which admits of a child with a broken leg

RIGHT OF RECOVERY FOR UNLICENSED PRACTICE IN EMERGENCY CASES.

The Appellate Court of Indiana considers, in the case of Board of Commissioners of Adams County v. Cole, decided March 13,1894, the right of a physician to recover for services rendered in a case of emergency without his having the required license to practice medicine. The question arose over a physician located not far from the border line in Ohio, being called to attend a man in Indiana suffering from a broken leg. It was shown that there was a pressing emergency, and an urgent necessity to amputate the leg as soon as it could be done, in order to save the patient's life, so that there was no time to be spent in first securing an Indiana license on the physician's part. The statute of the latter State, however, requires every physician or surgeon desiring to practice his profession there to procure a license therefor, and enacts that no