Surgery; its theory and practice . est corrected by using Roughtons mod-ification of the splint (). It consists of anoutside splint with a foot-piece. The heel is drawnforward and secured inposition by a heel band-age, the limb being fixedto the splint by two other bandages, one placed just above theankle and the other just below the knee (Fig, 205). At timesDupuytrens splint (Fig. 206) may be better adapted to a par-ticular case. The splint con-FiG. 205. sists of a straight lath notched at its lower end. It is placedon the inner side of the limb,and should reach from thetuberosity of t
Surgery; its theory and practice . est corrected by using Roughtons mod-ification of the splint (). It consists of anoutside splint with a foot-piece. The heel is drawnforward and secured inposition by a heel band-age, the limb being fixedto the splint by two other bandages, one placed just above theankle and the other just below the knee (Fig, 205). At timesDupuytrens splint (Fig. 206) may be better adapted to a par-ticular case. The splint con-FiG. 205. sists of a straight lath notched at its lower end. It is placedon the inner side of the limb,and should reach from thetuberosity of the tibia to threeor four inches below the wedge-shaped pad, with itsbase below, and not extendingbeyond the internal malleolus,should line the splint. Thesplint is bandaged on fromabove downwards, and the leghaving been thus secured, thefoot is brought over to the splint by making figure-of-eight turnsover the ankle and foot and through the notches at the lower endof the splint. The bandage should not pass over the external. •*&.! Roughtons splint applied. The arrows showthe direction in which the bandages pull. Fig. 206. Dupuytren: splint for Potts fracture. malleolus or the seat of fracture. The great objection to the useof this splint is, that having no foot-piece, the foot is not kept ata right angle to the leg. When no special apparatus is at handthe fracture, whether of both bones of the leg or of one bone 460 INJURIES OF REGIONS. only, may be put up in what is known in Edinburgh as the box-splint (Figs. 207, 208). All that is required is two ordinary sidesplints and some towels, cotton wool, and a few bandages. ThespHnts showld be rolled in the two ends of a long towel () so as to form a trough for the fracture, the width of thetrough being determined by first placing the sound leg in it. Thefracture having been set, the leg is placed on the towel and thesplints forming the sides of the trough or box are raised and se-cured in position by slip-knot bandag
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