. Minor surgery and bandaging; including the treatment of fractures and dislocations, the ligation of arteries, amputations, excisions and resections, intestinal anastomosis, operations upon nerves and tendons, tracheotomy, intubation of the larynx, ot made upon theskin by the compresses, which might result in ulceration ;this may be avoided by sponging the skin with alcoholand changing the positions of the compresses slightly at 26 402 FRACTURES. each dressing. At the expiration of ten days the fract-ure-box and compresses may be removed and the limbput up in a plaster-of-Paris dressing
. Minor surgery and bandaging; including the treatment of fractures and dislocations, the ligation of arteries, amputations, excisions and resections, intestinal anastomosis, operations upon nerves and tendons, tracheotomy, intubation of the larynx, ot made upon theskin by the compresses, which might result in ulceration ;this may be avoided by sponging the skin with alcoholand changing the positions of the compresses slightly at 26 402 FRACTURES. each dressing. At the expiration of ten days the fract-ure-box and compresses may be removed and the limbput up in a plaster-of-Paris dressing, including the footand leg, up to the knee. The patient may then be allowedto go about on crutches, and at the end of five weeks alldressings may be dispensed with. This fracture may also be treated by the forcible cor-rection of the deformity under ether and the immediateapplication of a plaster-of-Paris dressing. Dupuytrens splint, which consists of a straight woodensplint long enough to extend from the condyles of thefemur to the end of the toes, may also be employed ;this splint is provided with padding, the thickest part ofwhich, several inches in thickness, should rest upon theskin just above the inner malleolus when the splint is Fig. Dupuytrens splint applied. applied to the inner side of the leg. The splint is securedin position by the turns of a roller applied over the footand at the upper part of the leg (Fig. 300). After usingthis dressing for a few days, if the displacement is satis-factorily corrected, the splint may be removed and the legplaced in a fracture-box or in a plaster-of-Paris dressing. Fractures of the Tarsal Bones.—The calcaneum andastragalus are the tarsal bones most frequently fractured. Treatment.—The dressing of fractures of the calca-neum, after reducing the displacement, which is notusually marked unless the posterior portion of the boneis involved, by manipulation, consists in placing theleg and foot in a fracture-box, care being tak
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