A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . Wire-bed. employed upon these beds as well as upon ordinary beds. Sometimes a sectionof a bed, three feet square, is found quite as serviceable as an entire bed, inas-much as the back and nates are the only parts which are liable to bedsores. Fig. Bonnets vertebral ajutter. The wire-bed is an excellent substitute for the water-bed. It is less expensive,more easily managed, more durable, and admits of a much better regulation ofthe temperature. I have seen no bedsores occur where they were in use. In a FRACTURES OF THE BODIES OF THE VERT
A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . Wire-bed. employed upon these beds as well as upon ordinary beds. Sometimes a sectionof a bed, three feet square, is found quite as serviceable as an entire bed, inas-much as the back and nates are the only parts which are liable to bedsores. Fig. Bonnets vertebral ajutter. The wire-bed is an excellent substitute for the water-bed. It is less expensive,more easily managed, more durable, and admits of a much better regulation ofthe temperature. I have seen no bedsores occur where they were in use. In a FRACTURES OF THE BODIES OF THE VERTEBRA. 155 few cases it may be found useful to support the back, including the neck andnates, with a wire cuirass, well padded; and especially where the confinementis greatly prolonged. When sores have formed, they should be treated, if sloughing, withyeast poultices or the resin ointment. The resin ointment is an ex-cellent dressing for the sores after the sloughs have separated. In casethe surface is only slightly abraded, simple cerate forms the best applica-tion. In a few instances surgeons have made some slight attempt to reduce the frac-ture, or rather to rectify the spinal distortion, generally by the application ofmoderate extension to the limbs, and by laying the patient horizontally upon
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