The American practice condensed, or The family physician : being the scientific system of medicine ... . a properwidth and length, slitting the edges, in order to fit it to the arm; then wet FRACTURES 490 And apply it; when dry, it forms a perfect and secure bed for a fractured ordislocated limb. Since writing the above I have been called to a fracture of the humerisor upper arm of a child about eighteen months old, produced by a fall froma chair. The bone was broken immediately above the elbow or the con-dyles, the fractured bone nearly driven through the integuments, and wasattended with a c
The American practice condensed, or The family physician : being the scientific system of medicine ... . a properwidth and length, slitting the edges, in order to fit it to the arm; then wet FRACTURES 490 And apply it; when dry, it forms a perfect and secure bed for a fractured ordislocated limb. Since writing the above I have been called to a fracture of the humerisor upper arm of a child about eighteen months old, produced by a fall froma chair. The bone was broken immediately above the elbow or the con-dyles, the fractured bone nearly driven through the integuments, and wasattended with a considerable contusion; the fore-arm was twisted, and thebones were so widely separated that the elbow-joint had every appearanceof a dislocation, and the swelling soon became considerable. 1 took a pieceA pine board, and split it into two small narrow pieces, about an inch wideand half an inch thick. After cutting them even and smooth, I placed theends of each together, so as to form a right angle, nearly as represented inthe plate annexed, (fig. 4,) and then fastened them together with two Fig. Fro. 3.
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