A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . Swing box or cradle. (From Skey.) Bauers wire splints, used also for side-splints, when they are formedto fit the limb accurately, possess some advantages which must recom-mend them to the attention of surgeons; but neither these splints norany other, however accurately fitted, ought to be applied directly tothe naked skin. They require always the interposition of a well-paddedlining. 1 Bauer, Buffalo Medical Journal, April, 1857, vol. xii. FRACTURES OF THE TIBIA AND FIBULA. 487 Boxes are rarely useful except in certain compound fractures. T
A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . Swing box or cradle. (From Skey.) Bauers wire splints, used also for side-splints, when they are formedto fit the limb accurately, possess some advantages which must recom-mend them to the attention of surgeons; but neither these splints norany other, however accurately fitted, ought to be applied directly tothe naked skin. They require always the interposition of a well-paddedlining. 1 Bauer, Buffalo Medical Journal, April, 1857, vol. xii. FRACTURES OF THE TIBIA AND FIBULA. 487 Boxes are rarely useful except in certain compound fractures. Theyare heavy and awkward machines, which prevent the patient from movingreadily in bed; or which, being fixed, if he does move, allow the upperfragment only to descend, or to move upon the lower as a fixed point. Fig. Salters cradle. (From Fergusson. If used at all, they ought generally to be suspended, or made to moveon a suspended railway. But however they are arranged, the limb is agreat part of the time concealed from sight, and the surgeon is preventedfrom making use of such means to rectify deviations in the line of thebone as he would probably have otherwise employed. The swing invented by James Salter, of London, is constructed so as to allownot only a lateral motion, but also a more complete motion in the direction ofthe axis of the limb, by which the danger of pushing the fragments upon each Fig. 325. Fig. 326. A IM ^Sfflfi^ti\
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