A system of surgery : pathological, diagnostic, therapeutic, and operative . b slightly upon thestretch, as in fig. 404. A very simple but efficient method oftreating fractures of the inferior extremity of the radius has been suggested byDr. John Swinburne. It consists in confining the forearm upon a single splint,stretched along its posterior aspect from the elbow to the metacarpo-phalangealjoints, and composed of a thin piece of wood, the width of the limb, and pro-vided with two compresses, one of which fills up the concavity of the carpus,while the other supplies the deficiency in the stra
A system of surgery : pathological, diagnostic, therapeutic, and operative . b slightly upon thestretch, as in fig. 404. A very simple but efficient method oftreating fractures of the inferior extremity of the radius has been suggested byDr. John Swinburne. It consists in confining the forearm upon a single splint,stretched along its posterior aspect from the elbow to the metacarpo-phalangealjoints, and composed of a thin piece of wood, the width of the limb, and pro-vided with two compresses, one of which fills up the concavity of the carpus,while the other supplies the deficiency in the straight line of the arm splint is secured with adhesive strips, the application being commenced atthe elbow, and then continued, at intervals of several inches, down the limb tothe hand, which, the displaced parts having previously been adjusted, is firmlyfastened in such a manner ^s to allow perfect freedom to the thumb and annexed cuts, figs. 405, 406, and 401, afford a good idea of the apparatusand of the appearance of the limb after its Dressing for fracture of the lower end of the radius. Fig. 405.
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