New elements of operative surgery . nd 136 NEW ELEMENTS OP OPERATIVE SURGERY. nothing is more convenient for patients who suffer, and whom wedo not wish to disturb. Many other mechanical beds have been constructed; but thoseof Daujon and M. Nicolle, up to the present time, appear to uniteall the best qualities in this kind of article. Article VIII.—Hoops, (Cerceaux.)After the dressing is finished, it is sometimes required to protectthe wounded parts from the pressure of the sheets and such cases, we use an apparatus known under the name of Cer-ceaux, and whose design is, to keep
New elements of operative surgery . nd 136 NEW ELEMENTS OP OPERATIVE SURGERY. nothing is more convenient for patients who suffer, and whom wedo not wish to disturb. Many other mechanical beds have been constructed; but thoseof Daujon and M. Nicolle, up to the present time, appear to uniteall the best qualities in this kind of article. Article VIII.—Hoops, (Cerceaux.)After the dressing is finished, it is sometimes required to protectthe wounded parts from the pressure of the sheets and such cases, we use an apparatus known under the name of Cer-ceaux, and whose design is, to keep all the surrounding objects at adistance from the dressings. In the country, or where it is neces-sary for us to construct one on the spot, and to have it immedi-ately, we generally use a cask hoop, cut off at one of its extremities;this allows the two extremities to be separated and fixed betweenthe edges of the bed and the sides of the straw bed or mattress;while the ordinary hoop (Fig. 71) rests upon the bed. We have (Fig. 7L). thus a large or a small arc, (Fig. 72,) which sufficiently well sup-ports the bed-covering that we wish to surround the patient with,leaving the wounded part in a kind of void. If a single arc, thusarranged, should not suffice, nothing would be more easy than toplace a second, or even a third, at some distance above. The hoop, arranged as in figures 71 and 72, is, in part, the pre-ceding one systematized. It is made with rods of metal, or somesplittings of a bushel me-dsure,{quelques plaques de hoissellerie) joinedtogether by transverse pieces somewhat more solid, so as to resem-ble two or three arcs fixed together, and which should rest withtheir base upon the mattress oneach side of the injured limb;other cerceaux resemble more akind of square, (Fig. 73,) whichis constructed in the shape ofa box or cage. The importantpoint is, that they should be ofheight, width, and length suffi-cient effectually to isolate andprotect the diseased part. It isalso
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