Minor surgery, or, Hints on the every-day duties of the surgeon . ide. In MINOR SURGERY. 249 this are three rows of slits half an inch wide, andan inch and a half long, intended for the straps ofthe gaiters which are to secure the feet to theboard. Two other slits receive the ends of thesplints, thus making eleven perforations in thefoot-board. The gaiters are like Physicks gaiter,with two additional straps, so that there are twonear the instep and two near the heel, long enoughto pass through the foot-board, and tie on its — The bed being prepared, as be-fore mentioned, and
Minor surgery, or, Hints on the every-day duties of the surgeon . ide. In MINOR SURGERY. 249 this are three rows of slits half an inch wide, andan inch and a half long, intended for the straps ofthe gaiters which are to secure the feet to theboard. Two other slits receive the ends of thesplints, thus making eleven perforations in thefoot-board. The gaiters are like Physicks gaiter,with two additional straps, so that there are twonear the instep and two near the heel, long enoughto pass through the foot-board, and tie on its — The bed being prepared, as be-fore mentioned, and the patient placed straightlyon it, the gaiters are applied to both feet, and thefracture set. The splints with junct-bags, or elsethe splints themselves padded, are then appliedand the foot-board fastened to them; when thefeet, protected by two small cushions beneaththem, are to be secured to the board by passingthe straps through the holes and tying them onthe outside, and the splints are to be secured to thebody by four or five pieces of rollers. Fig. In this apparatus both limbs are confined, andthe counter extension is made at the acetabulumof the sound side by means of the sound , we must guard against any bendingof the sound knee, as that would at once do away 250 MINOR SURGERY. with the use of the sound limb as a splint, andpermit shortening. A very simple apparatus for the treatment ofcertain cases of this fracture, is to be found in thefollowing plan. gibsons simple-inclined plane. Composition. — A board sixteen inches wide,two feet four inches high, and with six mortisesnear its upper extremity, is placed vertically;another board of similar breadth and length isplaced horizontally; a third, three feet long, andextending from the extremity of the horizontalone to within ten inches of the top of the uprightone, forms an inclined plane, and the whole joinedtogether forms a triangle. Fig. 173.
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