A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . Louis Bauers wire splints for the leg. any others, however accurately fitted, ought to be applied directly tothe naked skin. They require always the interposition of a well-padded lining. Boxes are rarely useful except in certain compound fractures. Theyare heavy and awkward machines, which prevent the patient frommoving readily in bed ; or which, being fixed, if he does move, allowthe upper fragmemt only to descend, or to move upon the lower as afixed point. If used at all, they ought generally to be suspended ormade to move on a suspended
A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . Louis Bauers wire splints for the leg. any others, however accurately fitted, ought to be applied directly tothe naked skin. They require always the interposition of a well-padded lining. Boxes are rarely useful except in certain compound fractures. Theyare heavy and awkward machines, which prevent the patient frommoving readily in bed ; or which, being fixed, if he does move, allowthe upper fragmemt only to descend, or to move upon the lower as afixed point. If used at all, they ought generally to be suspended ormade to move on a suspended railwaj7. But, however they are ar- 1 Bauer, Buffalo Medical Journal, April, 1857, vol. xii. 472 FRACTURES OF THE TIBIA AND FIBULA. ranged, the limb is a great part of the time concealed from sight, andthe surgeon is prevented from making use of such means to rectify Fig. Swing box or cradle. (From Skey.) deviations in the line of the bone as he would probably have other-wise employed. The swing invented by James Salter, of London, is constructed soas to allow not only a lateral motion, but also a more complete motionin the direction of the axis of the limb, by which the danger of push- Fig. 217.
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