Will gives an excellent instance of avulsion of the right arm and scapula in a girl of eighteen, who was caught in flax-spinning machinery.

The axillary artery was seen lying in the wound, pulsating feebly, but had been efficiently closed by the torsion of the machinery.

The girl recovered.
Additional cases of avulsion of the upper extremity are reported by Aubinais, Bleynie, Charles, George, James, Jones, Marcano, Belchier, Braithwaite, and Hendry.
Avulsion of the Lower Extremity .-- The symptoms following avulsion of the upper extremity are seen as well in similar accidents to the leg and thigh, although the latter are possibly the more fatal.

Horlbeck quotes Benomont's description of a small boy who had his leg torn off at the knee by a carriage in motion; the child experienced no pain, and was more concerned about the punishment he expected to receive at home for disobedience than about the loss of his leg.

Carter speaks of a boy of twelve who incautiously put the great toe of his left foot against a pinion wheel of a mill in motion.