A manual of modern surgery : an exposition of the accepted doctrines and approved operative procedures of the present time, for the use of students and practitioners . Anterior and posterior gypsum splints with wire rings applied for suspension in fracture of leg. (Stimson.) or bandages dipped into water as needed. If gypsum gauze is notused at once, it should be preserved in a dry place. The setting canbe retarded by the addition of a little dissolved glue, of borax orcream of tartar to the water, and hastened by using hot water oradding salt. A little skill, in cutting out Y-shaped pieces of
A manual of modern surgery : an exposition of the accepted doctrines and approved operative procedures of the present time, for the use of students and practitioners . Anterior and posterior gypsum splints with wire rings applied for suspension in fracture of leg. (Stimson.) or bandages dipped into water as needed. If gypsum gauze is notused at once, it should be preserved in a dry place. The setting canbe retarded by the addition of a little dissolved glue, of borax orcream of tartar to the water, and hastened by using hot water oradding salt. A little skill, in cutting out Y-shaped pieces of the 368 FRACTURES. sheets of gauze and in overlapping the edges thus made when cornersare to be turned, will enable the surgeon to make moulded splints tosuit fractures in all regions. Such splints may be varnished to pre- Fig. Authors fracture-nails with drill point and handle. The nails are easily started through the boneby means of the handle. They are theu driven with a hammer. vent absorption of fluids. In open fractures which have become in-fected, and are therefore suppurating, openings may be made in thesplints, so that the wound may be dressed without displacing the Fig. 149.
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