An American text-book of the diseases of childrenIncluding special chapters on essential surgical subjects; orthopaedics, diseases of the eye, ear, nose, and throat; diseases of the skin; and on the diet, hygiene, and general management of children . andage. The plaster should belight and smoothly applied. The foot should be held in the corrected positionwhile the plaster is being applied and until it is well hardened. It is a graveerror to apply plaster and make pressure while it is setting, for sloughing isliable to follow. It should always be remembered that the plaster is to meetthe second
An American text-book of the diseases of childrenIncluding special chapters on essential surgical subjects; orthopaedics, diseases of the eye, ear, nose, and throat; diseases of the skin; and on the diet, hygiene, and general management of children . andage. The plaster should belight and smoothly applied. The foot should be held in the corrected positionwhile the plaster is being applied and until it is well hardened. It is a graveerror to apply plaster and make pressure while it is setting, for sloughing isliable to follow. It should always be remembered that the plaster is to meetthe second indication, and not the first. Only the best bandages, made fromthe finest dental plaster, should be used, the poorer grades being so slow settingthat they will cause great annoyance and sometimes failure. When the de-formity has been over-corrected the plaster may be left on for a month before ORTHOPEDICS. 1085 chnnging. It should be reapplied until all tendency to relapse has disap-peared, a period usually of several months. After a time a heavier cast maybe applied and the child allowed to walk upon it. When the deformity isthoroughly overcome, and not till then, a club-foot shoe or walking shoe Fig. 21. Fig. 22. ^5B|!!lil|||fL liiiffisii.
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