. A treatise on dislocations and fractures of the joints. erved. The plan adopted to accomplish these objects was the following : A mattress was made of horse-hair about five inches thick, and verysmooth, and this was covered with a sheet. A part of the mattresswas made to draw out on the opposite side to the fracture, so thatwhen the necessary evacuations took place there still should be nomotion of the body. Before drawing out the piece of mattress, aboard of two feet long, and six inches wide, shaped like a wedge, wasinsinuated under the buttock of the right side, the two ends of theboard r
. A treatise on dislocations and fractures of the joints. erved. The plan adopted to accomplish these objects was the following : A mattress was made of horse-hair about five inches thick, and verysmooth, and this was covered with a sheet. A part of the mattresswas made to draw out on the opposite side to the fracture, so thatwhen the necessary evacuations took place there still should be nomotion of the body. Before drawing out the piece of mattress, aboard of two feet long, and six inches wide, shaped like a wedge, wasinsinuated under the buttock of the right side, the two ends of theboard resting on the mattress ; thereby preventing the nates from sink-ing at all into the opening when the piece of mattress was removed,and the injured side still rested on the body of the mattress; theboard was of course removed after the mattress was replaced. Uponthe bedstead was first placed a thick smooth board, sufficiently largeto cover the bottom of the bed, and on that was placed the mattress,thereby preventing any sinking by the weight of the THROUGH THE GREAT TROCHANTER. 157 The bandage recommended by Sir A. Cooper was the following : abroad web, sufficient to go round the body over the hips, was fixedwith two buckles and straps, and a piece was added to make it widerwhere it passed under the injured trochanter; this was lined withchamois leather, and stuffed ; a pad of the same leather, which wasabout six inches long, three broad, and three inches thick, and endinggradually in a point, was placed inmediately under the trochanter ma-jor of the injured side, so that when the bandage was buckled, the padpassed into the hollow beneath the trochanter, and when the bandagewas tightened, it forced the trochanter upwards and forwards into itsnatural position ; then another pad was made very thick, about eightinches square, in the shape of a wedge, and this was placed under theupper part of the thigh, after the bandage was fixed on. The patientwas placed on his back, the l
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