Abraham Colles, Irish Surgeon & Professor

Abraham Colles (1773-1843) was professor of Anatomy, Surgery and Physiology at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. Colles devised treatments for aneurysm and defined the Colles fracture and Colles Law'. He developed the technique of tying large arteries affected by an aneurysm with a ligature. The Colles fracture is a fracture of the radius (a bone just above the wrist) which is the most common type of fracture in people over the age of forty suffering from osteoporosis. His Colles Law states that a healthy mother may bear a syphilitic child without becoming infected

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