Minor surgery, or, Hints on the every-day duties of the surgeon . lder, the pad in the injured axilla, and fix it there by carrying itstapes one in front of,the other behind thechest, to tie them onthe collar. Flex theforearm, place theelbow-piece on itand the arm, andbring the arm againstthe pad. Fasten theposterior tapes to thecollar behind; andrunning the tape orband through the loops near the wrist, tie the fore-arm well up to the collar in front. This reducesthe fracture completely, and is all that is generallyrequired. Observations. — Of all the means recommendedfor the treatment of frac
Minor surgery, or, Hints on the every-day duties of the surgeon . lder, the pad in the injured axilla, and fix it there by carrying itstapes one in front of,the other behind thechest, to tie them onthe collar. Flex theforearm, place theelbow-piece on itand the arm, andbring the arm againstthe pad. Fasten theposterior tapes to thecollar behind; andrunning the tape orband through the loops near the wrist, tie the fore-arm well up to the collar in front. This reducesthe fracture completely, and is all that is generallyrequired. Observations. — Of all the means recommendedfor the treatment of fracture of the clavicle, noneare more simple or better to fulfil the indicationsthan this of Dr. George Fox. Made in a fewminutes of materials nearly always at hand, re-ducing the fracture, yet leaving it open to inspec-tion ; light and easy of application ; producing noconstriction of the chest, pressure on the mammaeor on the axillary vessels or nerves, it offers ad-vantages that no other means possess; and , by its introduction into practice, has caused. MINOR SURGERY. 209 the perfect cure of very many cases, and saved thepatients much unnecessary suffering and incon-venience. In the Pennsylvania Hospital it is theonly means employed for the treatment of thisinjury, and repeated testimony has been given ofits ability to produce perfect cures, it being a rarething for a simple case of this fracture to go outof the house with any deformity save that whichtime cures, viz., the deposition of the provisionalcallus. From 1829 up to the year 1838, a periodof nine years, seventy-five cases of fractured cla-vicle were treated in the house, of which, sixty-three were discharged cured, and twelve left thehouse while under treatment, the apparatus allow-ing of their walking about as usual.* In the sub-sequent years a large number of cases have alsobeen treated with such success, that no one whohas employed it ever resorts to any other meansof treatment, except in special cases, whe
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