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 . Bed-traction in a case of flexion and abduction (Lovett ; by permission of the Trustees of the Fiske Prize Fund). to prevent motion and pressure from the weight of the body uponthe diseased hip. The apparatus worn during the day, when thepatient is walking about, may be discarded at night and the tractionapparatus employed. Abscesses should be incised, curetted and irrigated; and either su-tured or drained. They must be protecte
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 . Bed-traction in a case of flexion and abduction (Lovett ; by permission of the Trustees of the Fiske Prize Fund). to prevent motion and pressure from the weight of the body uponthe diseased hip. The apparatus worn during the day, when thepatient is walking about, may be discarded at night and the tractionapparatus employed. Abscesses should be incised, curetted and irrigated; and either su-tured or drained. They must be protected from putrefactive and py- Fig. Mortons extension apparatus for traction in tubercular coxitis. ogenic infection. Sometimes the wound made for evacuation of thetubercular pus may be closed antiseptically and union by first intentionobtained. TUBERCULOSIS OF THE HIP JOINT. 509 In cases the symptoms of which have never been very severe effi-cient treatment may sometimes be obtained by a splint from the begin-ning of the disease. This should allow the patient to use the other leg Fig. 280. Fig. 281.
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