Interstate medical journal . Fig. 4. Applying- the waxed compresses over the band-ages. After Scultetus, but Hippocrates says the compressesought to completely surround the limb and not be separatedfrom each other by a space as this figure shows. It makesthe pads look like Fig. 5. Applying the splints on the seventh day. AfterScultetus. First the two bandages have been put on, thenthe waxed pads, the bandaging to fix which can be seen un-der the Fig. 6. Splint for leg-fracture described byHippocrates. Made of elastic rods fitting into loopson shackle-like pads above the ank
Interstate medical journal . Fig. 4. Applying- the waxed compresses over the band-ages. After Scultetus, but Hippocrates says the compressesought to completely surround the limb and not be separatedfrom each other by a space as this figure shows. It makesthe pads look like Fig. 5. Applying the splints on the seventh day. AfterScultetus. First the two bandages have been put on, thenthe waxed pads, the bandaging to fix which can be seen un-der the Fig. 6. Splint for leg-fracture described byHippocrates. Made of elastic rods fitting into loopson shackle-like pads above the ankle and below theknee. After Littre. MILNE: ANCIENT SURGICAL APPARATUS 51 loosened, and now these having been removed and the limb having beenbathed, the pads and bandages were put on as before, but this time splintswere applied in addition. (Fig. 5.) These were narrow and rod-like,and were arranged all round the limb, the breadth of a finger interven-ing between each, and were kept in place by three or four strings tiedjust tight enough to keep the splints in position without their action con-tributing at all to the compression of the part. The splints were ex-amined every third day till bony union had taken place, and the wholedressing was reapplied whenever it became loose
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