Quotes About Patella

Salt was sacred, and sanctified the table. The patella and salinum were the two items that the Roman of the pioneering days held above everything to be the deorum causa (Liv., 26, 36, 6). They were the only two items of tableware that the generals of that time took with them on campaign (Plin., NH, 33, 153).

Fracture of the patella may be produced by muscular action or by direct violence. When produced by muscular action, it occurs thus: a person in danger of falling forwards attempts to recover himself by throwing the body backwards, and the violent action of the quadriceps extensor upon the patella snaps the bone transversely across.