Compound Fracture of Both Forearms

a jam tiee sixteen days ago and hurt himself I found both ulna and radius of the left arm protruding to the extent of two inches through a sloughing wound on the back of the forearm just above the wrist-joint. The radius was broken transversely about % of an inch above the wrist-joint, and the ulna obliquely in the same situation. The tendons of the back of the arm, in the si'uation of the wound, had sloughed, and the skin and soft parts on the back of the hand were becoming gangrenous, and was evidently a case for amputation. There was also considerable swelling of the right forearm just above the wrist, and an ulcer on its anterior aspect which communicates with a fracture of the radius about yz an inch above the wrist. The vessels and nerves were intact, and no great loss of soft parts.