Minor surgery, or, Hints on the every-day duties of the surgeon . s of preserving extension aremade of two substances, the best of which arebrown holland linen, and buckskin. These maybe employed either as in the gaiter of Dr. Physick,or the band of Dr. Coates. , DR. COATESS BAND FOR PRESERVING EXTENSION. This is made of a piece of brown holland, MINOR SURGERY. 231 slightly biassed, but leaving the central threadscontinuous throughout, from fifteen to eighteeninches long, if designed for an adult, two incheswide in the middle and narrowing on each side,rapidly at first, then slowly, towards th
Minor surgery, or, Hints on the every-day duties of the surgeon . s of preserving extension aremade of two substances, the best of which arebrown holland linen, and buckskin. These maybe employed either as in the gaiter of Dr. Physick,or the band of Dr. Coates. , DR. COATESS BAND FOR PRESERVING EXTENSION. This is made of a piece of brown holland, MINOR SURGERY. 231 slightly biassed, but leaving the central threadscontinuous throughout, from fifteen to eighteeninches long, if designed for an adult, two incheswide in the middle and narrowing on each side,rapidly at first, then slowly, towards the extremi-ties, which are an inch in width. This is to be linedthroughout nearly its whole length with thickbuckskin, a very little wider than the linen, thelatter being simply basted to the former by stitcheswhich dip but half way through the skin, in orderthat they may not produce irritation. Two piecesof tape, each an inch wide, are sewed securely tothe ends of this band, so as to make it long enoughto go over the lower end of the splint. In apply- Fig. ing this, place the centre of it over the tendo-Achilles, and bring the ends round above themalleoli to the front of the ankle, cross them onthe top of the instep, and carrying them down, knotthem beneath the instep a short distance from thesole of the foot, when the tapes are to be carriedover the end of the splint, and tied. Where this band cannot be readily obtained, acommon handkerchief folded into a similar shapeand applied like this band, answers quite as in some cases, owing to the irritability of thepatient, and the extension being made by the bandinstead of the hands of the surgeon, or owing to a 232 MINOR SURGERY. want of attention to the smoothness of the band,excoriations will happen. It is desirable, there-fore, to be able, by changing the means of preserv-ing extension, to bring the pressure to bear ondifferent points, and we may resort to the fol-lowing : physicks gaiter. Composition. — This is
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