A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . en generally applied very tight, and while it has done no harm,it has as plainly done no good. The dangers to which I allude may be easily avoided, without relax-ing the security afforded by the compress and bandage, by a methodwhich is very simple, and the value of which I have already suffi-ciently determined by my own practice. The surgeon will prepare, extemporaneously always, for no singlepattern will fit two arms, a splint, from a long and sound wooden shin- 22 330 FRACTURES OF THE ULNA. gle, or from any piece of thin, light board. Thi
A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . en generally applied very tight, and while it has done no harm,it has as plainly done no good. The dangers to which I allude may be easily avoided, without relax-ing the security afforded by the compress and bandage, by a methodwhich is very simple, and the value of which I have already suffi-ciently determined by my own practice. The surgeon will prepare, extemporaneously always, for no singlepattern will fit two arms, a splint, from a long and sound wooden shin- 22 330 FRACTURES OF THE ULNA. gle, or from any piece of thin, light board. This must be long enoughto reach from near the wrist-joint to within three or four inches of theshoulder, and of a width equal to the widest part of the limb. Itswidth must be uniform throughout, except that, at a point correspond-ing to a point three inches, or thereabouts, below the top of the olec-ranon process, there shall be a notch on each side, or a slight narrow-ing of the splint. One surface of the splint is now to be thickly padded Fig. The authors method. with hair or cotton-batting, so as to fit all of the inequalities of thearm, forearm, and elbow, and the whole covered neatly with a piece ofcotton cloth, stitched together upon the back of the splint. Thus pre-pared, it is to be laid upon the palmar surface of the limb, and a rolleris to be applied, commencing at the hand and covering the splint, bysuccessive circular turns, until the notch is reached, from which pointthe roller is to pass upwards and backwards behind the olecranon pro-cess and down again to the same point on the opposite side of thesplint; after making a second oblique turn above the olecranon, torender it more secure, the roller may begin gradually to descend, eachturn being less oblique, and passing through the same notch, until thewhole of the back of the elbow-joint is covered. This completes theadjustment of the fragments, and it only remains to carry the rolleragain upwards, by circular t
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