Again, when Vesalius showed that Galen was wrong in describing the human femur and humerus as greatly curved, Sylvius explained the discrepancy by saying that the wearing of narrow garments by the moderns had straightened the limbs.
"Fathers of Biology"
Charles McRae
When I broke my right femur 'chasin,' he got me back in the saddle in six weeks.
"Somewhere in France"
Richard Harding Davis
The Christian Scientist asserts that there is no such thing as matter, but that pain is merely a delusion of mortal mind; he continues serene in this faith until he runs into an automobile and sustains a compound fracture of the femur-whereupon he does exactly what any of the rest of us do, goes to a competent surgeon and has the bone set.
"The Book of Life: Vol. I Mind and Body; Vol. II Love and Society"
Upton Sinclair