A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . Bartons bandage for afractured jaw. other, according as the successive turns (i to the right Fig. 35. of the bandage are caror left. There is one other objection,having reference to the occasional in-adequacy of this dressing to preventan overlapping of the fragments; towhich objection also the sling, asusually constructed, is equally obnox-ious, and of which I shall speak pres-ently. Finally, it is to the sling, in someof its various forms, with or withoutthe interdental splint, that surgeonshave generally given the sling is
A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . Bartons bandage for afractured jaw. other, according as the successive turns (i to the right Fig. 35. of the bandage are caror left. There is one other objection,having reference to the occasional in-adequacy of this dressing to preventan overlapping of the fragments; towhich objection also the sling, asusually constructed, is equally obnox-ious, and of which I shall speak pres-ently. Finally, it is to the sling, in someof its various forms, with or withoutthe interdental splint, that surgeonshave generally given the sling is known, also, by the nameof the four-headed or the four-tailedroller 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 to use for this purpose a piece of muslin cloth about one yard long andfour inches wide, torn down from its two extremities to within about. Four-tailed, bandage or sling for thelower jaw. 134 FRACTURES OF THE LOWER JAW. three or four inches of the centre. Others have used leather, guttapercha, adhesive straps, gum-elastic, etc. Where the muslin is used, it is quite customary to lay against theskin a piece of pasteboard, wetted, and moulded to the chin, or simplya soft compress; and some choose to open the centre of the bandagesufficiently to receive the chin. The middle of this bandage beinglaid upon the chin, the two ends corresponding to the upper marginof the roller are now carried across the front of the chin, behind thenape of the neck, and made fast; while the two lower heads are broughtdirectly upwards from under the sides of the chin, along the sides of theface, in front of the ears, and made fast upon the top of the head. Thedressing is completed by a short counter-band extending across thetop of the head from one bandage to the other; or the several bandsmay be made fast to a nightcap, in which case the counter-
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