The surgeon's handbook on the treatment of wounded in war : a prize essay . Keeping back the soft parts with the linen retractor. 2. Whilstsawing, thesoft parts aredrawn forcibly upwards bythe hands of anassistant, orby means of astrip of linenslit down the middle andwashed in car-bolic water(fig. 315 and316) (),while anotherassistant holdsthe lower partof the limbfirmly and se-curely, buttowards theend sinks alittle, to avoidthe saw beinglocked. 3. For limbsivith two bonesthe soft partsin the intervalbetween themmust be com-pletely dividedbefore the ap-plication of thesaw, by push-ing
The surgeon's handbook on the treatment of wounded in war : a prize essay . Keeping back the soft parts with the linen retractor. 2. Whilstsawing, thesoft parts aredrawn forcibly upwards bythe hands of anassistant, orby means of astrip of linenslit down the middle andwashed in car-bolic water(fig. 315 and316) (),while anotherassistant holdsthe lower partof the limbfirmly and se-curely, buttowards theend sinks alittle, to avoidthe saw beinglocked. 3. For limbsivith two bonesthe soft partsin the intervalbetween themmust be com-pletely dividedbefore the ap-plication of thesaw, by push-ing a narrowsingle edged \w knife (fig. 298) through, and cutting upon one of the bones first fromone side then from the other, and making the cutting edge to work asindicated in fig. 318 from a. to b. Fig. 319. Fig.
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