<h3>I. FRACTURE OF THE NECK OF THE FEMUR IN ADULTS.</h3> The treatment of the fracture of the neck of the femur in the old familiar way by weight and pulley, extension and a long T-splint, was always disappointing and the result was a more or less crippled condition of the patient, which remained for life. To be sure the trochanter would be pushed upward and make for itself a sort of socket in the soft tissues, which would tolerate some weight-bearing, but a crutch or cane was a necessity in the majority of cases. This was not the fault of the medical attendant, but rather of the method of treatment. A patient put up in this manner is far from being immobilized as regards the fracture. Every time the bed-pan is inserted, which is several times daily, the fragments are moved. If the body is turned at all for the