. The principles and practice of modern surgery . : the patient in this case recovered with a lu-rfectly usi-fullimb. If, however, violent inflammation follows the injury, with profusedischarge and much constitutional sutliring, the primary dressing must beat once removed, and antiphlogistic remedies resorted to, — as local andgeneral depletion, poultices, or water-dre^sings, &.C., &.c. motionshould be ciuitiously instituted as soon as circnstances will admit of introduction of sulures should be avoided as much as possible ; ifemployed, cure slioidd be exercised not lo include
. The principles and practice of modern surgery . : the patient in this case recovered with a lu-rfectly usi-fullimb. If, however, violent inflammation follows the injury, with profusedischarge and much constitutional sutliring, the primary dressing must beat once removed, and antiphlogistic remedies resorted to, — as local andgeneral depletion, poultices, or water-dre^sings, &.C., &.c. motionshould be ciuitiously instituted as soon as circnstances will admit of introduction of sulures should be avoided as much as possible ; ifemployed, cure slioidd be exercised not lo include the ligament in thesuture. (Sir A. Cooper, op, cit., case 137, ji. 210.)^— XIII. lKACTUHrs OK Till. Lkc.—Jlie ordinary fractures of the leg maybe reiidily dislinniiislicd by curelul (•xaniiniilion. Tiiere are several me-thods of treatment. (1.) By the tailed Imndnirt and splints.—Tiie injured leg being laid outer side, the fVaclure is reduced by extension from the knee and ankle. FRACTURES OF THE LEG. Fig. 59. 259. Then a many tailed bandage is applied after the manner represented in thecut. This bandage is easily made thus:—take a piece of roller, longenough to reach from the knee to the foot, and to overlap about one-thirdof the leg besides. Cut another roller into pieces, and lay them across thefirst at right angles, in such a manner that each shall overlap one-third of thepreceding one; these transverse pieces (which should be half as longagain as the circumference of that part of the leg which they are to en-circle) are to be stitched to the longitudinal one, and then the bandage isready for use. One splint, well padded, should be applied to the outerside of the limb ; another to the inner side; and if there is any projectionof either fragment, it should be kept in its place by a third slight splintto the shin. The outer splint should have a foot-piece, which should becarefully padded in such a manner as to prevent the foot from turningeither inwards
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