His article, published in the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, now known as The New England Journal of Medicine, also developed the classification system.
Fracture | H. C. Colles | fracture | Fascia of Colles | Abraham Colles | The Ocean Fracture | Skull fracture | Pelvic fracture | Mandibular fracture | Maisonneuve fracture | Jones fracture | Fracture (bone) | Conchoidal fracture | Colles' fracture | Colles' fascia | an X-ray image of an external fixator being used for reduction of a broken bone, in this case, a Colles' fracture |
He also described the membranous layer of subcutaneous tissue of the perineum, which came to be known as Colles' fascia.
As the war drew to a close, Colles petitioned in a letter to General Washington in 1783 to remove obstacles along a short stretch of the Ohio River, which would open the entire river to naviation from Fort Pitt to the Mississippi, a project Washington thought laudable, but next to impossible to achieve.
Fascia of Colles, serves to bind down the muscles of the root of the penis
The quarry was owned by the Colles family, a famous member being Professor Abraham Colles who gave his name to the Colles' fracture.