Annual and analytical cyclopaedia of practical medicine . Fig. 10.—Adhesive plaster folded for Bucks extension. {StiiiiNOii. Pallwhgy.—In fractures through theneck the cancellous tissue is crushed,but impaction is rare. The head of thebone may be splintered. As a portion ofthe periosteum habitually remains un-torn, the vitality of the head is insured inconvenience of a shortened limb, whilein others locomotion may lie entirelylost. Treatment. — The first indication isto save the patients life, and to this allelse must be subordinate. Such splints. Fig. 11.—Adhesive plaster applied for extensio
Annual and analytical cyclopaedia of practical medicine . Fig. 10.—Adhesive plaster folded for Bucks extension. {StiiiiNOii. Pallwhgy.—In fractures through theneck the cancellous tissue is crushed,but impaction is rare. The head of thebone may be splintered. As a portion ofthe periosteum habitually remains un-torn, the vitality of the head is insured inconvenience of a shortened limb, whilein others locomotion may lie entirelylost. Treatment. — The first indication isto save the patients life, and to this allelse must be subordinate. Such splints. Fig. 11.—Adhesive plaster applied for extension. {Stimsoii.) thereby, and union, filuous at least, maybe expected. Fractures at the base arelikely to be impacted and the line offracture may split the great greatest impaction is usually Ijehind:hence the thigh tends to rotate callus is often excessive. should l)e applied as will most promotethe patients comfort, and the disturb-ance of repeated measurement and re-dressing avoided. Careful nursing, feed-ing, and stimulating are of capital im-])ortance. Premonitory signs of demen-tia must be watched for, and if the pa- FKACTUKES. 30^ tient seems to be failin*i- he must begotten out of bed, whetlier his thigh hasunited or not. In this event the hipshould be disturbed as little as possibleand the patient allowed to recline in awheel-chair. Pressure over the trochan-ter will encourage union, the pressure tobe made by a pad under a pelvic bandworn as tight as is compatible with thepatients comfort. Energe
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