A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . Many-tailed bandage. the tissues, reduces the fracture,in some degree, to the same condi-tion in which it was at first, and,consequently, the time which haselapsed, or, at least, a portion ofit, may be regarded as lost. We cannot, therefore, understandthe argument by which Bromfield,South, and a few other surgeons havepersuaded themselves, that reductionshould never be attempted before thethird or fourth day; nor, indeed, dowe fully appreciate the refinementwhich Malgaigne has given to thisquestion, in itself so simple. To affirmthat we ough
A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . Many-tailed bandage. the tissues, reduces the fracture,in some degree, to the same condi-tion in which it was at first, and,consequently, the time which haselapsed, or, at least, a portion ofit, may be regarded as lost. We cannot, therefore, understandthe argument by which Bromfield,South, and a few other surgeons havepersuaded themselves, that reductionshould never be attempted before thethird or fourth day; nor, indeed, dowe fully appreciate the refinementwhich Malgaigne has given to thisquestion, in itself so simple. To affirmthat we ought not to reduce the bonesto their original positions during the period of intense inflammation, or of greatswelling, or while the muscles are acting spasmodically, is only to affirm that we Application of the roller by circular andreversed turns. GENERAL TREATMENT OF FRACTURES, 61 may not do what is impossible; and the attempt to do which, therefore, canonly be mischievous; but to authorize their restoration to abetter position, bysuch manipulation
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