I presume that sufficient has been said to satisfy your readers of the truth of my assertion. I will, however, before closing this article, mention, as briefly as possible, two cases of dislocation of the os femoris on the dorsum ilii. which occurred in my own practice, and which 1 reduced in the above-mentioned manner. Case I.-Some time in 1836, I was summoned to visit Josiah Atkins, of East Granville, who, by falling forward with great violence, from a wagon, and receiving the wagon load of bags of grain upon his back, not only badly fractured his skull which came in contact with a rock, but also dislocated his os femoris upon the dorsum ilii. The patient presenting every symptom of pressure on the brain, I immediately ap
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