. The science and art of surgery, embracing minor and operative surgery. Comp. from standard allopathic authorities, and adapted to homoeopathic therapeutics, with a general history of surgery from the earliest periods to the present time .. . int ofthe elbow when the patientwishes to walk about, by knot-ting the cord by which it issuspended, and when he lies inbed, the knot in the cord asseen in the cut, is loosed, andthe cord carried beneath thebed-clothing over a small pullyplaced at the foot of the bed,and in this way an equal exten-sion is constantly kept up,whether the patient is confine
. The science and art of surgery, embracing minor and operative surgery. Comp. from standard allopathic authorities, and adapted to homoeopathic therapeutics, with a general history of surgery from the earliest periods to the present time .. . int ofthe elbow when the patientwishes to walk about, by knot-ting the cord by which it issuspended, and when he lies inbed, the knot in the cord asseen in the cut, is loosed, andthe cord carried beneath thebed-clothing over a small pullyplaced at the foot of the bed,and in this way an equal exten-sion is constantly kept up,whether the patient is confined to his bed or is able and prefersI to walk about. When using this apparatus for treating these fractures, I apply ino other dressing, and entirely ignore the compress in the axilla las useless, if not positively injurious, when the upper end of the lower fragment is displaced outwards. The constant traction ipon the muscles soon exhausts their tonicity, so that they allow ;he fragments to fall into their natural position, while the exten- lion being constantly in the line of the axis of the humerus, it is [uite impossible that any displacement should continue, either laterally or of an angular character, or that any shortening should. 406 SCIENCE AND ART ;OF SURGERY. result. I have treated several cases of fracture of the head of thehumerus on this plan, and with uniform good results. The firstpatient on whom I applied the dressing—and which illustratessufficiently the progress of the cases treated subsequently—wasa stout muscular man, aged thirty-three years, who had fallensome twelve feet striking the point of the. shoulder upon theground, causing considerable contusion of the soft parts, besidesfracture of the bone. At the end of seven weeks the dressingwas removed and the union in the fracture found to be firm,without any displacement or shortening, and in ten days after,the patient was discharged from the hospital with perfect use ofhis arm. Erichsen uses a pad, a le
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