There was no pulse in the wrist in either the radial or ulnar arteries, but there was pulsation in the brachial as low as the ecchymosed swelling.

Those parts of the hand and fingers supplied by the median and radial nerves were insensible.

The right humerus was broken at the middle, the end of the upper fragment piercing the triceps, and almost protruding through the skin.

One or more of the middle ribs on the right side were broken near the angle, and there was a large transverse rent in the quadriceps extensor.
Despite this terrible accident the man made a perfect recovery, with the single exception of limitation of flexion in the left elbow-joint.
Dewey details a description of a girl of six who was carried around the upright shaft of a flour mill in which her clothes became entangled.
Some part of the body struck the bags or stones with each revolution.
She sustained a fracture of the left humerus near the insertion of the deltoid, a fracture of the middle third of the left femur, a compound fracture of the left femur in the upper third, with protrusion of the upper fragment and considerable venous hemorrhage, and fracture of the right tibia and fibula at the upper third.

When taken from the shafting the child was in a moribund state, with scarcely perceptible pulse, and all the accompanying symptoms of shock.