. The medical age : a semi-monthly journal of medicine and surgery. We are now ready for the plaster-of-Parispaste, which shall be made of the consistenceof cream. An assistant dips it with a cup andpours on the surface, while the operator rubs itevenly over the glove-covering and out overthe adjacent flat surface of flannel: tin- Latter isthen brought up and neatly moulded to thethumb. While the assistant holds it thus, the opera-tor places a flat hand on either side oppositethe seat of fracture, keeping up extension andpressing upon the inter-osseous space until thethe plaster has set. The c
. The medical age : a semi-monthly journal of medicine and surgery. We are now ready for the plaster-of-Parispaste, which shall be made of the consistenceof cream. An assistant dips it with a cup andpours on the surface, while the operator rubs itevenly over the glove-covering and out overthe adjacent flat surface of flannel: tin- Latter isthen brought up and neatly moulded to thethumb. While the assistant holds it thus, the opera-tor places a flat hand on either side oppositethe seat of fracture, keeping up extension andpressing upon the inter-osseous space until thethe plaster has set. The comb or crest may now be trimmed towithin half an inch of its base, and the splint iscomplete, as seen in Pig, When it is desired to inspect the limb, separate the comb and cut the stitches, and tl>will open by virtue of tin* hinge, as shown in- Fig. 3. With the limb resting on either lateral sur-face, the top-most half of the cast may beturned back, while the opposite one supports the parts and maintains extension ami counter- 174 THE MEDICAL AGE. extension. When the necessary inspection isfinished, the splint may be securely fastenedagain with a few strips of tape.
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