The rules of aseptic and antiseptic surgery; a practical treatise for the use of students and the general practitioner . interposed shred of thecapsular ligament. Keduction and primary union with perfect restoration of function. Condylar fractures of the elhoiv imtli posterior or lateral displacementof the forearm are a common injury with children. What with the greatdifficulty of an exact diagno-sis in the presence of a largeeffusion, and the great differ-ences of opinion of the au-tliors as regards the propermanner of treatment, no won-der that, after elbow-fract-nres, cases of gun-stock de-
The rules of aseptic and antiseptic surgery; a practical treatise for the use of students and the general practitioner . interposed shred of thecapsular ligament. Keduction and primary union with perfect restoration of function. Condylar fractures of the elhoiv imtli posterior or lateral displacementof the forearm are a common injury with children. What with the greatdifficulty of an exact diagno-sis in the presence of a largeeffusion, and the great differ-ences of opinion of the au-tliors as regards the propermanner of treatment, no won-der that, after elbow-fract-nres, cases of gun-stock de-formity and partial disloca-tion with inability to flex theelbow are not at all of the authors adyiseputting up of the fracture inextension, others in flexion;some recommend early pass-ive motion with frequent change of the angle of the elbow; others condemnaltogether early passive motion. The authors conviction is that in many instances exact reposition andretention are utterly impossible unless the fragment is cut down upon andsutured or nailed to its original seat. The insertions of the muscles of the. ilG. 71.—Dressintc for wounds of hand and forearm. SPECIAL APPLICATION OF THE ASEPTIC METHOD. 81 forearm about tlie epicondyles must exert a great influence upon the dis-placement of the fragments, hence it seems that flexion would be the betterposition to counteract the tendency to displacement. But all assertionsmade to that effect, that, in spite of the presence of a large swelling, reduc-
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