Show I More l Broken Necks Are Due to the die le Automobile Chicago More people are getting their necks broken these days than in the horse and buggy buggy buggy bug bug- gy era and the automobile is responsible Dr H. H F. F of Cincinnati told members of the Congress of Radiology here The particular part of the neck which gets broken is the atlas the first vertebra at the base of the skull which forms the pivot on which the skull rotates Previously fractures of the atlas were reported among longshoremen and in gymnasium accidents Dr recalled Now automobile accidents throw riders against the tops of cars and pitch them to the I pavement with many cases of fractured fractured frac frac- lured atlases Most of these patients recover and andare andare andare are fully active Dr said Fractures of the skull above the atlas atlas atlas at at- las are more dangerous The atlas is not easily injured by direct violence because it is well protected by other bones and is deeply imbedded in surrounding soft tissues But in a head head on n fall faIl the force is directed against the weakest part of the atlas by the pressure of the skull at this point |