. Minor surgery and bandaging; including the treatment of fractures and dislocations, the ligation of arteries, amputations, excisions and resections, intestinal anastomosis, operations upon nerves and tendons, tracheotomy, intubation of the larynx, Dressing for fracture of the femur with extension upon an inclined plane. (Agnew.) of the upper fragment Professor Agnew employed exten-sion made from the thigh and placed the limb upon adouble inclined plane, maintaining this position during thetreatment of the case (Fig. 289). With the same object Fig. Double inclined fracture-box. in
. Minor surgery and bandaging; including the treatment of fractures and dislocations, the ligation of arteries, amputations, excisions and resections, intestinal anastomosis, operations upon nerves and tendons, tracheotomy, intubation of the larynx, Dressing for fracture of the femur with extension upon an inclined plane. (Agnew.) of the upper fragment Professor Agnew employed exten-sion made from the thigh and placed the limb upon adouble inclined plane, maintaining this position during thetreatment of the case (Fig. 289). With the same object Fig. Double inclined fracture-box. in view, in place of the double inclined plane a doubleinclined fracture-box may be employed (Fig. 290), exten-sion being made from the thigh by means of adhesive 388 FRACTURES. plaster strips applied above the knee, to which a weightis attached. Fracture of the Shaft of the Femer.—This is a fre-quent fracture, and is usually accompanied by markedshortening and angular or rotatory displacement of thefragments. Treatment.—The patient should be placed upon a fract-ure-bed or an ordinary bed with a firm hair mattress; anextension apparatus of adhesive plaster is applied, andextension is made by a weight attached to this, as pre-viously described. Lateral support is given to the limbby the application of two wooden splints—the outer orlong one extending from the axilla to the foot, the inneror short one extending from the groin to the foot. Thesplints at their upper extremity should be about sixinches in width and at their lower extremity about threeand
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