...patient to raise himself: it is necessary then to inquire if the limb preserves this shortening, or maybe made to lose it by extension, and if the great trochanter...by an upward movement of the pelvis, caused by the cortusion: the diagnosis becomes more evident if it extends to half an inch or more. Displacement,...

...limb preserves its shortening, or if ¡t is destroyed by extension ; if the great trochanter revolves on the axis of the femur, or on the extremity of the lever. If the shortening is only a few lines, it is difficult to distinguish it from that produced by an accensional movement of the...

...the limb can be extended to its natural length, and whether the great trochanter moves, in rotation, on the axis of the femur, or on the extremity of the lever (the head of the bone). If the shortening does not exceed many lines, it is difficult to distinguish...