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  • In fractures of the angle of the ilium and the ischial tuberosity, perceptible evidence always exists.
  • The gibbon exhibits this iliac expansion through the sitting posture which developed his ischial callosities.
  • In fracture of the ischial tuberosity, infection is more apt to result than in like injury of the ilium, and greater displacement of bone occurs.
  • The palæontologist might tell us if some such case of ischial approximation by natural mechanical causes has not caused the probable extinction of whole genera of...
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