. Antiseptic surgery : an address delivered at St. Thomas's Hospital : with the subsequent debate to which are added a short statement of the theory of the antiseptic method, a description of the materials employed in carrying it out, and some applications of the method to operations and injuries in different regions of the body, and to wounds received in war. Fig. 28.—Posterior Leg splint. removed. In simple fracture the splints are in direct contactwith the skin, but in compound, the dressing will be Fig. 29. When the wound is on the anterior aspect of the limb,as it usually is
. Antiseptic surgery : an address delivered at St. Thomas's Hospital : with the subsequent debate to which are added a short statement of the theory of the antiseptic method, a description of the materials employed in carrying it out, and some applications of the method to operations and injuries in different regions of the body, and to wounds received in war. Fig. 28.—Posterior Leg splint. removed. In simple fracture the splints are in direct contactwith the skin, but in compound, the dressing will be Fig. 29. When the wound is on the anterior aspect of the limb,as it usually is, and there are no counter-openings behind, itis not difficult to arrange the posterior splint, so that it shallnot require removal except when there is much bleeding ordischarge. It should be made comparatively narrow, fig. .30,lined with mackintosh, and a layer of folded gauze laid over PLASTER-OF-PARIS SPLINTS. 187 it; the external dry dressing may be applied outside thissplint, and inside the anterior one. The anterior splint canbe lifted off, the dressing renewed and the condition of thewound inspected without any disturbance to the fracture, asthe limb remains supported by the posterior splint, fig. 31,
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