. A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . is Bauers wire splints for the Bauer, Buffalo Medical Journal, April, 1857, vol. xii. FRACTURES OF THE TIBIA AND FIBULA. 473 must recommend them to the attention of surgeons; but neither thesesplints nor any others, however accurately fitted, ought to be applieddirectly to the naked skin. They require always the interposition ofa well-padded lining. Boxes are rarely useful except in certain compound fractures. Theyare heavy and awkward machines, which prevent the patient frommoving readily in bed; or which being fixed, if he does mov
. A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . is Bauers wire splints for the Bauer, Buffalo Medical Journal, April, 1857, vol. xii. FRACTURES OF THE TIBIA AND FIBULA. 473 must recommend them to the attention of surgeons; but neither thesesplints nor any others, however accurately fitted, ought to be applieddirectly to the naked skin. They require always the interposition ofa well-padded lining. Boxes are rarely useful except in certain compound fractures. Theyare heavy and awkward machines, which prevent the patient frommoving readily in bed; or which being fixed, if he does move, allowthe upper fragment only to descend, or to move upon the lower as afixed point. If used at all, they ought generally to be suspended (), or made to move on a suspeuded railway (Fig. 206). But, how-ever they are arranged, the limb is a great part of the time concealedfrom sight, and the surgeon is prevented from making use of suchmeans to rectify deviations in the line of the bone, as he would pro-bably have otherwise employed. Fig. Swing box or cradle. (From Skey.) The swing invented by James Salter, of London (Fig. 206), is con-structed so as to allow not only a lateral motion, but also a more com-
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