. 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 .. . 392 SCIENCE AND ART OF Flg,3°4, is published in the Southern Medical and Surgical Journal,for 1852. The plan of this dressing isto form a sling for the elbowand forearm, a pad for theaxilla and at the same timesecuring the arm firmly to theside. Professor Sayre, of the Belle-vue Hospital, has devised asimple and effective dressing forfractures
. 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 .. . 392 SCIENCE AND ART OF Flg,3°4, is published in the Southern Medical and Surgical Journal,for 1852. The plan of this dressing isto form a sling for the elbowand forearm, a pad for theaxilla and at the same timesecuring the arm firmly to theside. Professor Sayre, of the Belle-vue Hospital, has devised asimple and effective dressing forfractures of the clavicle, whichconsists of two strips of adhe-sive plaster three to four incheswide (narrower for children),Leviss apparatus applied. one piece being long enough to surround the arm and go completely around the body ; the otherto reach from the sound shoulder around the elbow of the frac-tured side and back to the place of starting. The first piece ispassed around the arm just below the axillary margin andpinned and stitched in the form of a loop sufficiently large tprevent strangulation, leaving a portion on the back of the aruncased by the plaster. The arm is then drawn downward anbackward until the clavicular portion of the pectoralis-major iput sufficientl
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