ather of the injured lad
straightened the leg, adjusted the various fractures, and administered
calomel and salts. The boy progressively recovered, and in a few weeks
his shoulder and legs were well. About this time a loosened fragment of
the skull was removed almost the size and shape of a dessert spoon,
with the handle attached, leaving a circular opening directly over the
eye as large as a Mexican dollar, through which cerebral pulsation was
visible. A peculiar feature of this case was that the boy never lost
consciousness, and while one of his playmates ran for assistance he got
out of the hole himself, and moved to a spot ten feet distant before
any help arrived, and even then he declined proffered aid from a man he
disliked. This boy stated that he remembered each revolution of the
lever and the individual injuries that each inflicted. Three years
after his injury he was in every respect well. Fraser mentions an
instance of a boy of fifteen who was caught in the crank of a
balance-wheel in a shingle-mill, and was taken up insensible. His skull
was fractured at the parietal eminence and the pericranium stripped
off, leaving a bloody tumor near the base of the fracture about two
inches in diameter. The right humerus was fractured at the external
condyle; there was a fracture of the coronoid process of the ulna, and
a backward dislocation at the elbow. The annular ligament was ruptured,
and the radius was separated from the ulna. On the left side there was
a fracture of the anatomic neck of the humerus, and a dislocation
downward. The boy was trephined, and the comminuted fragments removed;
in about six weeks recovery was nearly complete. Gibson reports the
history of a girl of eight who was caught by her clothing in a
perpendicular shaft in motion, and carried around at a rate of 150 or
200 times a minute until the machinery could be stopped. Although she
was found in a state of shock, she was anesthetized, in order that
immediate attention could be given to her injuries, which were found to
be as follows:--

(1) An oblique fracture of the middle third of the right femur.

(2) A transverse fracture of the middle third of the left femur.

(3) A slightly comminuted transverse fracture of the middle third of
the left tibia and fibula.

(4) A transverse fracture of the lower third of the right humerus.

(5) A fracture of the lower third of the right radius.

(6) A partial radiocarpal dislocation.

(7) Considera