wedge, notch, oblique, transverse,
perforating--Fractures by old types of bullet--Lesions of the short and
flat bones--Special character of the symptoms in gunshot fracture, and
of the course of healing--Prognosis--Treatment--Special fractures--Upper
extremity--Pelvis--Lower extremity 154

CHAPTER VI

INJURIES TO THE JOINTS

General character--Vibration synovitis--Wounds of
joints--Classification--Course and symptoms--General treatment--Special
joints 225

CHAPTER VII

INJURIES TO THE HEAD AND NECK

Anatomical lesions--Scalp wounds--Fracture of the skull without evidence
of gross lesion of the brain--Fractures with concurrent brain
injury--Classification--General injuries--Effect of ricochet--Vertical
or coronal wounds in frontal region--Glancing or oblique wounds of any
region--Gutter fractures--Superficial perforating fractures--Fractures
of the base--Symptoms of fracture of the skull, with concurrent injury
to the brain--Concussion--Compression--Irritation--Frontal
injuries--Fronto-parietal and parietal injuries--Occipital
injuries--Forms of hemianopsia--Abscess of the brain--General
diagnosis--General prognosis--Traumatic epilepsy--General
treatment--Wounds of the head not involving the brain--Mastoid
process--Orbit--Globe of the eye--Nose--Malar bone--Upper
jaw--Mandible--Wounds of the neck--Wounds of the pharynx, larynx, and
trachea 241

CHAPTER VIII

INJURIES TO THE VERTEBRAL COLUMN AND SPINAL CORD

Fractures in their relation to nerve injury--Transverse
processes--Spinous processes--Centra--Signs of fracture of
the vertebra--Injuries to the spinal cord--Effects of high
velocity--Concussion, slight, severe--Contusion--Haemorrhage,
extra-medullary, haematomyelia--Symptoms of injury to the spinal
cord--Concussion--Haemorrhage--Total transverse lesion--Diagnosis of form
of lesion--Prognosis--Treatment 314

CHAPTER IX

INJURIES TO THE PERIPHERAL NERVES

Anatomical lesions--Concussion--Contusion--Division or
laceration--Secondary implication of the nerve--Symptoms of nerve
injury--Traumatic neuritis--Scar implication--Ascending
neuritis--Traumatic neurosis--Injuries to special nerves--Cranial
nerves--Cervical, brachial, lumbar, and sacral plexuses--Cases of nerve
injury--General prognosis an