A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . elower jaw on the left side to the chin, and thence return to the occiput along theright side of the maxilla; repeat the same course, step by step, until the rolleris spent, and then confine its terminal end. These bandages possess the advantages of being easily obtained, ofsimplicity and facility of application, and, we may add, if considered inrelation to the majority of simple fractures, of tolerable adaptation tothe ends proposed. The only objections to their use which I have evernoticed are occasional disarrangements, and the tendency,
A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . elower jaw on the left side to the chin, and thence return to the occiput along theright side of the maxilla; repeat the same course, step by step, until the rolleris spent, and then confine its terminal end. These bandages possess the advantages of being easily obtained, ofsimplicity and facility of application, and, we may add, if considered inrelation to the majority of simple fractures, of tolerable adaptation tothe ends proposed. The only objections to their use which I have evernoticed are occasional disarrangements, and the tendency, as in all other FRACTURES OF THE LOWER JAW 127 continuous rollers, to draw the fragments to one side or the other, accord-ing as the successive turns of the bandage are carried to the right or is one other objection, having reference to the occasional inade-quacy of this dressing to prevent an overlapping of the fragments; towhich objection also the sling, as usually constructed, is equally obnoxious,and of which I shall speak Fig. 50.
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