The practice of surgery : embracing minor surgery and the application of dressings, etc., etc., etc. . these a splint-cloth;upon this a soft pillow ; on this sufficient strips of the bandage ofScultetus to cover the leg from the ankle to the knee. The frac-tured leg is then laid upon this bandage and the centre of thepillow; the fragments are coaptated, and the bandage of Scultetusapplied from the ankle up; two splints, three inches wide and ahalf inch thick, longer than the leg, are rolled, one in each end ofthe splint-cloth, and brought up so as to cause the pillow to fit theleg snugly ; the
The practice of surgery : embracing minor surgery and the application of dressings, etc., etc., etc. . these a splint-cloth;upon this a soft pillow ; on this sufficient strips of the bandage ofScultetus to cover the leg from the ankle to the knee. The frac-tured leg is then laid upon this bandage and the centre of thepillow; the fragments are coaptated, and the bandage of Scultetusapplied from the ankle up; two splints, three inches wide and ahalf inch thick, longer than the leg, are rolled, one in each end ofthe splint-cloth, and brought up so as to cause the pillow to fit theleg snugly ; the tapes are tied, and the foot is supported by aslin. Pressure from bed-clothes is prevented by two halves of ahoop crossed at their centres. The fracture-box is preferable; it consists of three splints, orlight boards, fastened together by hinges, which may be of sides and bottom of the box should extend from the knee, 202 FRACTURE OF THE TIHIA OR FIBULA. beyond the foot. Fastened to the lower end of the bottom shouldbe a foot-board, and the upper end of the sides should have mortise-. FRACTURE OF THE Til! I A. 203 holes in them, to fasten counter-extending bands, when this isnecessary. In this simple box, a pillow, filled with oat-chafTj
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