. The principles and practice of modern surgery. tleforwards, and then pushing it support the parts during the cure,the most common apparatus is. The stellate, or figure of 8 bandage,represented in fig. 22. In the first placea thick wedge-shaped pad must be putinto the axilla, with the large end upper-most. Then a long roller must be passedover each shoulder alternately, and bemade to cross on the back. In the nextplace, the arm must be confined to theside by two or three turns of the roller;and lastly, the elbow should be wellraised by a sling, which is also to sup-port the forearm
. The principles and practice of modern surgery. tleforwards, and then pushing it support the parts during the cure,the most common apparatus is. The stellate, or figure of 8 bandage,represented in fig. 22. In the first placea thick wedge-shaped pad must be putinto the axilla, with the large end upper-most. Then a long roller must be passedover each shoulder alternately, and bemade to cross on the back. In the nextplace, the arm must be confined to theside by two or three turns of the roller;and lastly, the elbow should be wellraised by a sling, which is also to sup-port the forearm. It will be noticed,that the shoulder is kept up by the sling,out by the pad, and back by the bandage. In ordinary cases the patientmay be allowed to walk about in a week or ten days, and the cure will * Lonsdale on Fractures, Lond., 1838. It consists of a grooved plate of ivory to fit. theteeth: and a wooden plate adapted to the base of the bone. These two plates are fastenedtogetlier by screws. See also Fergiisson, op. cit., p. 425. Fig. FRACTURE OF THE SCAPULA. 231 Fig. 23. be completed in a month or five weeks. The patient should be informedthat some little irregularity is apt to remain. If, however, there is any difficulty in maintaining a proper position,the patient must be confined to bed, and some additional apparatus beemployed. The simplest is a straight splint across the shoulders, to whichthey are to be bound by the figure of 8 bandage; or a splint shaped likea T, of which the horizontal part is bound to the shoulders; and thevertical part passes down the back, and is confined by a belt round theabdomen. Besides these there is the clavicle bandage, [Fig. 23,] which consistsof two loops for the shoulders,attached to two pads, restingon the scapulae, which aredrawn together by straps andbuckles (it is little, if at all,better than the figure of 8 band-age)—and Amesherrys appa-f^ntus, which, although verycomplex, seems constructed ina manner that prevents all p
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