ABSTRACT
Joseph Malgaigne 1 (1806–1865) tells us that the first reference to incomplete fractures or curvatures of bone is Glazer’s 1673 autopsy report of a 12-year-old boy with such an injury in the femur. ‘A child, twelve years old, in jumping, felt pain in his thigh. He could, for two days, walk and go down stairs, putting the point of the foot to the ground; after which there ensued an acute inflammation, and a copious suppuration, which carried him off.’ 1
