To: bigheadfred
How does a leg break kill you? I forget the medical term, but a blood clot from a major leg injury can travel through the blood stream and get lodged in the Blood vessels supplying the brain and you die from a stroke.
15 posted on
09/18/2012 2:08:43 PM PDT by
DiogenesLamp
(Partus Sequitur Patrem)
To: DiogenesLamp
It wasn't so log ago that a compound fracture of the femur could be fatal. In John Knowles
A Separate Peace, finny dies of a compound fracture of his femur.
32 posted on
09/18/2012 4:02:18 PM PDT by
jmcenanly
("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
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