. A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . E. K. Sanborns mode of dressing a fractured patella,of adhesive plaster lifted into a loop over the knee. Fig. 181. Eepresents the limb covered with a broad band. Same apparatus; dressing complete. Represents the band of adhesive plaster secured in place by aroller, while the loop is being drawn together by torsion. Underneath the plaster, and just above theupper fragment of the patella, a compress is placed to aid the adjustment. 444 FRACTURES OF THE PATELLA. three weeks the man was able to walk alone, with the plaster stillapplied, and t
. A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . E. K. Sanborns mode of dressing a fractured patella,of adhesive plaster lifted into a loop over the knee. Fig. 181. Eepresents the limb covered with a broad band. Same apparatus; dressing complete. Represents the band of adhesive plaster secured in place by aroller, while the loop is being drawn together by torsion. Underneath the plaster, and just above theupper fragment of the patella, a compress is placed to aid the adjustment. 444 FRACTURES OF THE PATELLA. three weeks the man was able to walk alone, with the plaster stillapplied, and the recovery was ultimately perfect. There is now noperceptible halt in the gait. Within the last two years several cases of transverse fracture ofthe patella have been treated by this method, both by myself andothers in this vicinity, and with perfect The dressing which I have usually employed in the treatment ofthis fracture, consists of a single inclined plane, of sufficient length tosupport the thigh and leg, and about six inches wider than the limbat the knee. This plane rises from a horizontal floor of the samelength and breadth, and is supported at its distal end by an uprightpiece of board, wh
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