Excerpt from A Manual of Surgery: In Treatises by Various Authors Other predisposing causes of fracture are the male sex, in consequence of their more constant exposure to violence, and the shape and situation of particular hence the long ones of the extremities being more frequently involved than short, thick bones, like the bodies of the vertebra, etc. The exciting causes of fracture are external violence and muscular action. 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.