A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . patient to turn on either side. Motion on these rollers is accom-plished with so little resistance that there is no pain. The upright of the elbow to go at the foot of the bed should be long enoughto rest on the floor, or any convenient part of the bedstead, and project abouttwo feet above the level of the mattress—the horizontal piece long enough toreach nearly to the knee ; pine f by 2 inches is heavy enough. The angle madeby these pieces is braced, and a strap of hoop-iron outside makes it very the horizontal piece two slots are
A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . patient to turn on either side. Motion on these rollers is accom-plished with so little resistance that there is no pain. The upright of the elbow to go at the foot of the bed should be long enoughto rest on the floor, or any convenient part of the bedstead, and project abouttwo feet above the level of the mattress—the horizontal piece long enough toreach nearly to the knee ; pine f by 2 inches is heavy enough. The angle madeby these pieces is braced, and a strap of hoop-iron outside makes it very the horizontal piece two slots are cut wide enough to allow the iron pulleysto pass through, and of sufficient length to allow the patient to draw himself FKACTURES OF THE TIBIA AND FIBULA, 479 up and down in bed. A $ inch iron wire passes the whole length of this pieceabove the slots, steadied by small staples, so that it may be withdrawn. On this the upper pulleys run. The wire shields I 1 above these slots are to prevent the bedclothes from resting upon the rollers. Fir. V A\\\wllll!liiiji;itai i i iiuiM,1,!, !,i;r I i:! ;!| bill 1 Ilumiilniiiiliiiiilli Van Wagenens susjiension apparatus. The pulleys or wheels are fastened in the rubber tubes by making a fewturns of copper wire around the iron screw of the pulley. This is pushed intothe tube and bound outside with fine wire. Rings of rope large enough to pass over the foot are then put through thelower pulleys. If these rings open, or the foot is slipped out of them, the legis taken down without any of the apparatus about it, and the large wire may bewithdrawn and the leg lowered, with the pulleys and rings still Fir 310.
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