Excerpt from A Clinical, Pathological, and Experimental Study of Fracture of the Lower End of the Radius: With Displacement of the Carpal Fragment Toward the Flexor or Anterior Surface of the Wrist The exact line of break will make little difference, because the muscular surroundings have little to do with the causation or continuance of the distortion. In this injury the lower fragment is driven backward toward the dorsal surface of the forearm. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.