. Observations on the nature and consequences of those injuries to which the head is liable from external violence. d, buttime, £nd the ufe of the mufcles, foon ingeneral remove this. In fhort this doctrine of callus, confideredas a particular kind of juice, and as beingliable to great redundance if not prevented byart, has not only mifled many people, but hasoften been made ufe of as a cover to igno-rance and negleft. Wheii lamenefs and defor-mity have been the confequences of one orboth thefe caufes, more than of the natureand circumftances of a frafture, the callushas been found ready at ha
. Observations on the nature and consequences of those injuries to which the head is liable from external violence. d, buttime, £nd the ufe of the mufcles, foon ingeneral remove this. In fhort this doctrine of callus, confideredas a particular kind of juice, and as beingliable to great redundance if not prevented byart, has not only mifled many people, but hasoften been made ufe of as a cover to igno-rance and negleft. Wheii lamenefs and defor-mity have been the confequences of one orboth thefe caufes, more than of the natureand circumftances of a frafture, the callushas been found ready at hand to take theblame, and the ideal exuberance of thiscement has often been urged, as an excufefor real want of knowledge, or for grofsnegleft. The bed and moft ufeful bandage for afimple fracture of the leg or thigh, is whatis commonly known by the name of theeighteen-tailed bandage, or rather one madeen the fame principle, but with a little dif-ference dftbelieve, viz. that a callus io a particular cafe, was faredundant as to tranfude through the (kin, and to keep thecstnprelies condantiy we$« facepqsrc ( 37 ) ference in the difpofitlon of the common method is to make it fo, thatthe parts which are to furround ihe limb,make a right angle with that which runslengthways under it; inftead of which, if*they are tacked on fo as to make an acuteangle, they will fold over each other in anoblique direction, and thereby fit moreneatly and more fecurely, as the parts willthereby have more connection with andmore dependance on each other. In com-pound fradtures, as they are called, everybody fees and acknowledges the utility ofthis kind of bandage preferable to the rol-ler, and for very obvious and convincingreafons, but particularly becaufe it does notbecome neceffary to lift up and difturb thelimb every time it is drefled, or every timethe bandage loofens. The pain attending motion in a com-pound frafture, the circumftance of thewound, and the greater degree of instab
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