Annual and analytical cyclopaedia of practical medicine . at the foot of the bed and attachedto a Aveight of from 5 to 20 pounds, theheavier weights only being applied torobust and young patients whose short-ening is not done away with by thelighter ones. Outward rotation is pre-vented by employing Yolkmanns sliding under the limb, and pinned to the otherin such a way as to give uniform supportto the limb when it is raised from thebed. The apparatus is supported by twoloops tied to a cord which is attached toa crane at a point at least four feet abovethe bed and at an angle of about tendegrees
Annual and analytical cyclopaedia of practical medicine . at the foot of the bed and attachedto a Aveight of from 5 to 20 pounds, theheavier weights only being applied torobust and young patients whose short-ening is not done away with by thelighter ones. Outward rotation is pre-vented by employing Yolkmanns sliding under the limb, and pinned to the otherin such a way as to give uniform supportto the limb when it is raised from thebed. The apparatus is supported by twoloops tied to a cord which is attached toa crane at a point at least four feet abovethe bed and at an angle of about tendegrees from the vertical. Traction hip-splints, such as are usedin hip-joint disease, have also been ap-plied here. Their use is certainly a greatconvenience and will doubtless be more. Fig. 1,3.—Hodgens splint. {American Text-hook of Surgery.) (Fig. 12), and sand-bags along theouter side of the thigh. Hodgens splint (Fig. 13) consists oftwo iron rods slightly bent at the connec-tion of their upper and middle thirdsand attached together by a straight barat the lower ends and a curved one at theupper. The limb being attired as forBucks extension (Fig. 11) the cord isattached to the straight cross-bar and anumber of narrow, compresses or piecesof bandage are pinned to one rod, passed frequent in future. Unfortunately, how-ever, they cannot be used by the veryones who need them most—the aged andinfirm. When the shortening has once beenreduced some surgeons prefer to apply aplaster splint from waist to ankle at such a splint pressure may be madeover the trochanter through a fenestrato encourage union. Excision of the head for non-union hasbeen done with varying success, but FRACTURES. FEMUR. 309 should not be attempted until the failuroof a prolonged
Size: 1616px × 1546px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthors, bookcentury1800, bookdecade1890, booksubjectmedicine
