A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . ~ mm iiliiaii il iil Authors movable canvas. If joints are implicated seriously, and an attempt is still made to savethe limb, the joint-surfaces must be laid freely open, so as to prevent allpossibility of the confinement of blood, serum, or pus; and the joint mustbe placed perfectly at rest, without adhesive strips, bandages, or anyapparatus which shall compress the limb or embarrass its circulation. I still give the preference, in fractures of the femur, to the straightposition. In most cases I have preferred my own apparatus, alreadydesc
A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . ~ mm iiliiaii il iil Authors movable canvas. If joints are implicated seriously, and an attempt is still made to savethe limb, the joint-surfaces must be laid freely open, so as to prevent allpossibility of the confinement of blood, serum, or pus; and the joint mustbe placed perfectly at rest, without adhesive strips, bandages, or anyapparatus which shall compress the limb or embarrass its circulation. I still give the preference, in fractures of the femur, to the straightposition. In most cases I have preferred my own apparatus, alreadydescribed when speaking of fractures of the thigh in general, with Fig. ^;!^^.?. .. ? ? - ? .iiBllHlim mi Movable canvas, with, extension, on horses. moderate extension; and by moderate extension is to be understood suchas may be effected with from five to ten pounds. A movable canvas, such as is shown in the accompanying woodcuts 501 GUNSHOT FRACTURES. with a hole in the centre, and reinforced by an additional piece of canvaswhere the weight of the hips rests, will enable the surgeon to move hispatient and clean the bed when necessary. The standard which supportsthe pulley can be received in a slot in the frame. An apparatus similar to this was used, during our late war, in the LincolnGeneral Hospital at Washington. I have also used, with the movable canvas,and upon an ordinary bed, Hodgens apparatus, or * cradle, as he terms it, andhave found it exceedingly useful, and much preferable to any form of doubleinclined plane, whether suspended or not. The cradle is simply a skeleton-box,of the length of the thigh and leg, made of light
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