The practice of surgery : embracing minor surgery and the application of dressings, etc., etc., etc. . After the lapse of a couple of weeks, passive motion of the jointshould be commenced with care, and continued to the end of thetreatment, to prevent anchylosis. In fracture of the olecranon process, the elbow joint is to bestraightened, and bandaged by circular and reversed turns of. a roller, from the hand to the injured joint; the fragment shouldthen be brought down and adjusted, the roller passed above it,and around the joint, in the form of a figure 8, until it is firmlyfixed; the roller
The practice of surgery : embracing minor surgery and the application of dressings, etc., etc., etc. . After the lapse of a couple of weeks, passive motion of the jointshould be commenced with care, and continued to the end of thetreatment, to prevent anchylosis. In fracture of the olecranon process, the elbow joint is to bestraightened, and bandaged by circular and reversed turns of. a roller, from the hand to the injured joint; the fragment shouldthen be brought down and adjusted, the roller passed above it,and around the joint, in the form of a figure 8, until it is firmlyfixed; the roller is continued up the arm to the shoulder, to annulthe action of the triceps muscle. A splint is now placed in frontof the joint, extending some distance along the arm and fore-arm,and the roller passed in circular turns, binding the splint firmly to FRACTURE OF THE FEMUR. 191 the limb. In three weeks time passive motion should be commu-nicated to the joint, and frequently repeated to prevent union is this case will be ligamentous. In fracture of the coronoid process, the joint must be restored byextension, the limb bent at right angles, bandaged to keep it in thisposition, and the fore-arm placed in a sling. Union will be liga-mentous here also. In this fracture the coronoid process is drawn upwards by theaction of the brachialis anticus; probably, therefore, the
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