A system of surgery : pathological, diagnostic, therapeutic, and operative . Mlatyres splint, simplified and improved by MIntyres splint applied to the limb. CHAP. VIII. FEACTURES OF THE INFERIOE EXTREMITY. 961 Finally, when hoth thighs are broken the case may be ti-eated with a doubleinclined plane, or a fracture-bed, the hinges being arranged in such a manner asto permit the trunk to be raised or lowered at pleasure, without causing any mo-tion of the hips. The limbs should be well protected with side and front splints,and immovably tied together. The period required for th
A system of surgery : pathological, diagnostic, therapeutic, and operative . Mlatyres splint, simplified and improved by MIntyres splint applied to the limb. CHAP. VIII. FEACTURES OF THE INFERIOE EXTREMITY. 961 Finally, when hoth thighs are broken the case may be ti-eated with a doubleinclined plane, or a fracture-bed, the hinges being arranged in such a manner asto permit the trunk to be raised or lowered at pleasure, without causing any mo-tion of the hips. The limbs should be well protected with side and front splints,and immovably tied together. The period required for the consolidation of fractures of the shaft of the femurmust necessarily be greatly influenced by circumstances, as the age and healthof the patient, and the care with which the ends of the fragments are kept children of from five to fifteen years, complete union may usually be looked forin from twenty-four to twenty-eight days. In eighteen cases analyzed by Dr. Peirsou, of Massachusetts, the cure in persons of thirty years of age andunder, occupied days ; while in seventeen, where the age was upwards ofthirty,
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