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Historical Bibliography Updated: August 7, 2021

On the fracture of the carpal extremity of the radius.

Publication Details

Edinb. med. surg. J., 10, 182-86. 1814 CE.

Colles’s description of fracture of the carpal end of the radius led that type of fracture to be named “Colles’s fracture”. He was Professor of Surgery at Dublin for more than 30 years. Reprinted in Med. Classics, 1940, 4, 1038-42.

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Geographic Context

Mentioned in annotation: Dublin