. The science and art of surgery, embracing minor and operative surgery. Comp. from standard allopathic authorities, and adapted to homoeopathic therapeutics, with a general history of surgery from the earliest periods to the present time .. . it may be on a line with the end of the other compress,so that one may begin where the other ends, though on oppositesides of the wrist. These are then fastened in their places bya few turns of the roller loosely applied. The two splints arethen applied as in fracture of both bones of the forearm andconfined in position by the spiral bandage as shown in
. The science and art of surgery, embracing minor and operative surgery. Comp. from standard allopathic authorities, and adapted to homoeopathic therapeutics, with a general history of surgery from the earliest periods to the present time .. . it may be on a line with the end of the other compress,so that one may begin where the other ends, though on oppositesides of the wrist. These are then fastened in their places bya few turns of the roller loosely applied. The two splints arethen applied as in fracture of both bones of the forearm andconfined in position by the spiral bandage as shown in After the end of a few days the bandages may betightened from time to time and slight motion made at the joint,in order to prevent anchylosis. In four weeks and a half, infavorable cases, the splints may be left off, but the arm should be * Hamilton on Fractures and Dislocations, p. 276. FRACTURES OP THE FOREARM. 428 bandaged and supportedwith a sling for a coupleof weeks longer when thepatient may resume theuse of the limb. The splint suggestedfirst by Bond, of Phila-delphia, is a valuable ad-dition ; since the flexedposition is always moreeasy for the fingers, andin case of anchylosis thisposition renders the whole Fig. hand more Method. A view of Bartons Dressing for Fracture Tj^ OF THE LOWER END OF THE RADIUS, AS DESCRIBED m the text.—A. The graduated compress. 1, light board Of proper The thick end of each compress as applied to the-. , p ,. wrist, and represented as seen through the splints tniCkneSS tor a Splint, CUt and bandage, which retain them in position. (After profile of the forearm Nature.)and hand of the patient, extending the profile from the elbowdownward, as far as the second joint of the fingers when these aremoderately flexed, the lower end must then be cut off at an angle offifteen or eighteen degrees. The board is then covered with sheet-ing. A block of soft wood from an inch to an inch and a half inthickness, and from tw
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