A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . Bartons bandage for afractured jaw. 130 FKACTUEES OF THE LOWER JAW. Fig. Four-tailed bandage or sling, for the lowerjaw. constructed, is equally obnoxious, and of which I shall speak pre-sently. Finally, it is to the sling, in some of its various forms, with or with-out the interdental splint, that surgeons have generally given the prefer-ence. The sliQg is known, also, bythe name of the four-headed or thefour-tailed roller or bandage. B. Bell, Boyer, Skey, S. Cooper,B. Cooper, Syme, Fergusson, Mayor,Lizars, and Chelius employ the sling


A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . Bartons bandage for afractured jaw. 130 FKACTUEES OF THE LOWER JAW. Fig. Four-tailed bandage or sling, for the lowerjaw. constructed, is equally obnoxious, and of which I shall speak pre-sently. Finally, it is to the sling, in some of its various forms, with or with-out the interdental splint, that surgeons have generally given the prefer-ence. The sliQg is known, also, bythe name of the four-headed or thefour-tailed roller or bandage. B. Bell, Boyer, Skey, S. Cooper,B. Cooper, Syme, Fergusson, Mayor,Lizars, and Chelius employ the sling,usually; and the favorite mode is touse for this purpose a piece of muslincloth about one yard long and fourinches wide, torn down from its twoextremities to within about three orfour inches of the centre. Othershave used leather, gutta percha, ad-hesive straps, gum-elastic, etc. Where the muslin is used, it isquite customary to lay against theskin a piece of pasteboard, wetted,and moulded to the chin, or simplya soft compress; and some choose toopen the centre of the bandage suffi-ciently to receive the chin. The mid-dle o


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