A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . Section of Crandalls apparatus, applied to the limb; showing adhesive plaster counter-extendingbands and gaiter for extension, etc. 496 FRACTURES OF THE TIBIA AND FIBULA. extension. The extension is represented as being made by a gaiter, butDr. Crandall leaves it to the choice of the surgeon whether he shallemploy the gaiter or adhesive Without intending to deny to these contrivances for permanent ex-tension much ingenuity and considerable practical value, I am far from Fig. Crandalls apparatus complete. The counter-extending
A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . Section of Crandalls apparatus, applied to the limb; showing adhesive plaster counter-extendingbands and gaiter for extension, etc. 496 FRACTURES OF THE TIBIA AND FIBULA. extension. The extension is represented as being made by a gaiter, butDr. Crandall leaves it to the choice of the surgeon whether he shallemploy the gaiter or adhesive Without intending to deny to these contrivances for permanent ex-tension much ingenuity and considerable practical value, I am far from Fig. Crandalls apparatus complete. The counter-extending straps are passed over a block of wood sup-ported above the knee, to prevent their pressure upon the sides of the knee. conceding that they will be found capable of overcoming the action ofthe muscles where the ends of the fragments do not support each mode of action is such that they can scarcely do more than tosteady the limb, and if they operate upon the fragments at all in the Fig. 231.
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