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There are five different ways to break a leg. They range all the way from a "greenstick" fracture, where the bone is cracked half through and split longitudinally, to a compound fracture, where the shattered bone juts through the skin. No matter what the break, treatment is always the same: first setting and immobilization, then proper exercise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Nails, Stirrups, Plaster | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

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