. The science and art of surgery, embracing minor and operative surgery. Comp. from standard allopathic authorities, and adapted to homoeopathic therapeutics, with a general history of surgery from the earliest periods to the present time .. . d to produce the deformity, and at the sametime, give support to the parts when placed in their naturalposition. The dressings which have proved most useful in myhands have been the splints, shown in Fig. 307, together with apad similar in shapeand size to thatused for fracture ofthe clavicle. Thiswill act, both as aninside splint, and asa support to the
. The science and art of surgery, embracing minor and operative surgery. Comp. from standard allopathic authorities, and adapted to homoeopathic therapeutics, with a general history of surgery from the earliest periods to the present time .. . d to produce the deformity, and at the sametime, give support to the parts when placed in their naturalposition. The dressings which have proved most useful in myhands have been the splints, shown in Fig. 307, together with apad similar in shapeand size to thatused for fracture ofthe clavicle. Thiswill act, both as aninside splint, and asa support to theupper end of thelower fragment. Ofthe four splints inFig. 307, one shouldbe angular, and reach to the middle of the humerus on the innerside, so as to keep the elbow at rest, while the three straightsplints should be of sufficient length to reach from the upper partof the shoulder to the elbow, but not so long as to interfere withthe flexion and extension of the forearm. They may be made ofwood, pasteboard, gutta percha, tin, wire, or any material, sothat they be adapted as perfectly as possible to the saturated with gum arabic, or plaster of Paris, moulded toI the limb and permitted to harden, have been highly 404 SCIENCE AND ART OF SURGERY. The splints should be light, of such a shape as to fit the convexityof the arm, and of sufficient strength to afford firm support tothe broken parts. The limb should be bandaged from thefingers up to prevent oedema, and the splints well padded,carefully applied, and secured in their places by spiral turns of theroller, extension and counter-extension being kept up by the aidof assistants. If the lower fragment of the broken bone isdrawn inward the pad is placed in the axilla with its thick endup. If the upper fragment is drawn inward its position isreversed. If there is but little deviation of the fragments thepad may be omitted and its place filled by a well-padded all cases the parts should be well was
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