The American family physician : or, Domestic guide to health : for the use of physicians, families, plantations, ships, travelers, etc. . Adjustment of Fractured Lower Jaw. 560 AMERICAN FAMILY PHYSICIAN. firmly upward, as well as backward—two being carried over the top ofthe head, and two to the back; or as is shown in Figure 46. The paste-board must be wet, the better to mould it to the shape of the jaw. Thepatient should be kept quiet, and until the bone is firmly united shouldbe fed on broths, soups, jellies, &c, by means of a spoon, not being allowedto exercise his jaws in chewing food. FR
The American family physician : or, Domestic guide to health : for the use of physicians, families, plantations, ships, travelers, etc. . Adjustment of Fractured Lower Jaw. 560 AMERICAN FAMILY PHYSICIAN. firmly upward, as well as backward—two being carried over the top ofthe head, and two to the back; or as is shown in Figure 46. The paste-board must be wet, the better to mould it to the shape of the jaw. Thepatient should be kept quiet, and until the bone is firmly united shouldbe fed on broths, soups, jellies, &c, by means of a spoon, not being allowedto exercise his jaws in chewing food. FRACTURE OF THE COLLAR-BONE. Fig. Fractured Clavicle. The clavicle or collar-bone is usually fractured obliquely and near itsmiddle; occasionally it may give way nearer to one or the other of its ex-tremities. A fracture of this kind may be known by the pain produced onmotion; the patient not being able to raise his hand to his head; the armof the fractured side falling upon the breast; the shoulder falling forwardand inward; and the crepitus or grating noise occasioned by moving thearm or shoulder. If the finger be passed along the collar-bone, one of thefractured extremities will be felt to project over the other, causing a protu-berance not to be found in the opposite unbroken collar-bone. Fig. 48. Treatment. In the treatment of a fractured collar-bone, an assistant, standing behind thepatient, will firmly draw backward both arms andshoulders, until the fractured ends of the bonemeet and come into proper contact with each place well up in the axilla, or arm-pit, ofthe affected side, the base of a wedge-s
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