. The Richmond and Louisville medical journal. g in contact; while at the same time motion ispermitted, to keep the capsular ligament and other parts notinvolved in a healthy condition, by allowing the free use of thistheir natural stimulus. If the child is large enough torun about, and the thigh sufficient-ly long to give attachment to theadhesive plasters, then the shortsplint (Fig. 10) is altogether pref-erable. I have used this splintfor many years, and having triedall others, I find it altogether thebest wherever it can be applied,as it allows free flexion at theknee, and is, therefore, m
. The Richmond and Louisville medical journal. g in contact; while at the same time motion ispermitted, to keep the capsular ligament and other parts notinvolved in a healthy condition, by allowing the free use of thistheir natural stimulus. If the child is large enough torun about, and the thigh sufficient-ly long to give attachment to theadhesive plasters, then the shortsplint (Fig. 10) is altogether pref-erable. I have used this splintfor many years, and having triedall others, I find it altogether thebest wherever it can be applied,as it allows free flexion at theknee, and is, therefore, more com-fortable in the sitting posture. Ifthe patient is ten or twelve yearsof age, and too heavy to bear theweight of the body upon the in-strument without breaking it, orif too much tension is producedupon the skin by the adhesive plasters, then crutches will benecessary when the short instrument is used. If the childsthigh is too short, and he is too small to receive a sufficientamount of extension by the use of the short splint, then the. MORBUS COXARIUS. 541 long splint, which I here show you (Fig. 11), is much to bepreferred, and with it, if properly applied, the patient will beable to walk without the use of a crutch. The short splint and its various modifications, together withthe long splint with its abducting joint and rotating screw, andtheir mode of application, have already been so fully described(in my work on Diseases of the Joints), that I shall barely referto them here. Fig. 11. Fig. 12.
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