The authors know of an
unreported case in which a man running in the street touched his
hand to a hitching block he was passing; a ring on one of his
fingers caught in the hook of the block, and tore off the finger
with the attached tendon and muscle. There is a similar instance
of a Scotch gentleman who slipped, and, to prevent falling, he
put out his hand to catch the railing. A ring on one of his
fingers became entangled in the railing and the force of the fall
tore off the soft parts of the finger together with the ring.
The older writers mentioned as a curious fact that avulsion of
the arm, unaccompanied by hemorrhage, had been noticed. Belchier,
Carmichael, and Clough report instances of this nature, and, in
the latter case, the progress of healing was unaccompanied by any
uncomfortable symptoms. In the last century Hunezoysky observed
complete avulsion of the arm by a cannon-ball, without the
slightest hemorrhage. The Ephemerides contains an account of the
avulsion of the hand without any bleeding, and Woolcomb has
observed a huge wound of the arm from which hemorrhage was
similarly absent. Later observations have shown that in this
accident absence of hemorrhage is the rule and not the exception.
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