. A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations. Petits fracture-box. The fi:acture-box (Fig. 40) is a form of w^ooden splint once muchused in fractures of the leg, but now almost wholly discarded for thefollowing : Fig. lint for lo<r. Volkmanns splint (Kig. 41) is a sliallow gutter and toot-plcHw madein several lengths, and Utted with a movable support, bv which thefoot can be raised from the bed. Vov use it is thickly padded withk^o- i^ bound in it with a roller-baiulauv. Care must cotton, and the 94 FBACTVEES. be taken that undue pressure is not made on the skin covering thefro
. A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations. Petits fracture-box. The fi:acture-box (Fig. 40) is a form of w^ooden splint once muchused in fractures of the leg, but now almost wholly discarded for thefollowing : Fig. lint for lo<r. Volkmanns splint (Kig. 41) is a sliallow gutter and toot-plcHw madein several lengths, and Utted with a movable support, bv which thefoot can be raised from the bed. Vov use it is thickly padded withk^o- i^ bound in it with a roller-baiulauv. Care must cotton, and the 94 FBACTVEES. be taken that undue pressure is not made on the skin covering thefront of the tibia by the bandage or on the heel or the tendo Achillis;the latter pressure is best avoided by slinging the foot by means of abroad strip of adhesive plaster extending from the middle of the calf,under the heel and along the sole, to the top of the foot-piece, whereit is made fast by a reversed piece attached to it and then to the lowersurface of the metah Gutters of galvanized wire or tin (Fig. 4^) are much used for frac-tures of the humerus : they give more protection than short splintsbecause they include the forearm. They can be readily made fromsheets of wire gauze by taking a strip of suitable size and cu
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