. A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . Gibsons bandage for a fractured FRACTURES OF THE LOWER JAW. 135 course, step by step, until the roller is spent, and then confine itsterminal end. These bandages possess the advantages of being easily obtained, ofsimplicity and facility of application, and in general, we may add, ofcomplete adaptation to the ends proposed. The only objections totheir use which I have ever noticed, are occasional disarrangements,and the tendency, as in all other continuous rollers, to draw the frag-ments to one side or the other, according as the succ
. A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . Gibsons bandage for a fractured FRACTURES OF THE LOWER JAW. 135 course, step by step, until the roller is spent, and then confine itsterminal end. These bandages possess the advantages of being easily obtained, ofsimplicity and facility of application, and in general, we may add, ofcomplete adaptation to the ends proposed. The only objections totheir use which I have ever noticed, are occasional disarrangements,and the tendency, as in all other continuous rollers, to draw the frag-ments to one side or the other, according as the successive turns ofthe bandage are carried to the right or left. There is one other ob-jection, having reference to the occasional inadequacy of this dressingto prevent an overlapping of the fragments, to which objection alsothe sling, as usually constructed, is equally obnoxious, and of whichI shall speak presently. Finally, it is to the sling, in some of its various forms, that surgeonshave generally given the preference. The sling is known, also, bythe name of the four-headed or thefour-t
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