A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . V A\\\wllll!liiiji;itai i i iiuiM,1,!, !,i;r I i:! ;!| bill 1 Ilumiilniiiiliiiiilli Van Wagenens susjiension apparatus. The pulleys or wheels are fastened in the rubber tubes by making a fewturns of copper wire around the iron screw of the pulley. This is pushed intothe tube and bound outside with fine wire. Rings of rope large enough to pass over the foot are then put through thelower pulleys. If these rings open, or the foot is slipped out of them, the legis taken down without any of the ap
A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . V A\\\wllll!liiiji;itai i i iiuiM,1,!, !,i;r I i:! ;!| bill 1 Ilumiilniiiiliiiiilli Van Wagenens susjiension apparatus. The pulleys or wheels are fastened in the rubber tubes by making a fewturns of copper wire around the iron screw of the pulley. This is pushed intothe tube and bound outside with fine wire. Rings of rope large enough to pass over the foot are then put through thelower pulleys. If these rings open, or the foot is slipped out of them, the legis taken down without any of the apparatus about it, and the large wire may bewithdrawn and the leg lowered, with the pulleys and rings still Fir G. Wackerhagens method. There are a few cases in which a very much better position of the frag-ments can be secured by placing the patient under the influence of an 1 Van Wagenen, Med. Record, April 1, 1873. 480 FRACTURES OF THE TIBIA AND FIBULA, anaesthetic, and by applying the dressings during complete the surgeon needs to be warned of two things in this connection :First, that just as much harm can be done to the soft parts by violentwrenching and pushing when the patient is insensible as when he is fullyconscious; second, that while the patient is passing under the influenceof an anaesthetic he is liable to violent muscular spasms, which may doserious injury. What is known as the Bavarian method of using plaster-of-Paris hasbeen adopted by some American surgeons, which consists essentially inleaving the splint open in front and behind, or in leaving it connectedposteriorly only by a strip of cloth, which serves as a hinge. This planhas been especially recommended b
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