A hand-book of surgery: with fifty illustrations . aneous luxation. Often an abscessforms, and opens externally. The toes maybe turned inward or outward. Treatment.—Perfect rest upon a mattrass,as in caries of the spine, the limb being con-fined in a carved splint. Cups and leeches,over the joint, will be useful at first; subse-quently, more benefit will be derived fromcounter-irritation by blisters, setons, andissues. Purging with jalap and cream oftartar, tonics, and iodine, are the constitu-tional remedies. It may require months oryears to efiect a cure. FRACTURES. Fracture is a solution of
A hand-book of surgery: with fifty illustrations . aneous luxation. Often an abscessforms, and opens externally. The toes maybe turned inward or outward. Treatment.—Perfect rest upon a mattrass,as in caries of the spine, the limb being con-fined in a carved splint. Cups and leeches,over the joint, will be useful at first; subse-quently, more benefit will be derived fromcounter-irritation by blisters, setons, andissues. Purging with jalap and cream oftartar, tonics, and iodine, are the constitu-tional remedies. It may require months oryears to efiect a cure. FRACTURES. Fracture is a solution of continuity of a bone, produced by ex-ternal violence, or muscular contraction. Fractures arc divided intooblique, transverse, and longitudinal, according to the fracture is a mere separation of the bone into two parts;compound^ implies an open wound, communicating with the frac-ture; commdnutcdy when the bone is broken into nunun*ous frag-ments; and complicated J when attended with luxation, laceration oflarge vessels, & 88 SURGERY. The signs of fractures are deformity, preternatural mobility, cre-pitation, pain, swelling, and helplessness of the part. Old age, andcertain diseases of the bone, predispose to fractures; in cold weather,they are more numerous, on account of the increased muscular ex-ertion necessary in walking, where there is ice. Indirect violencemay occasion fracture, when a force is applied to the two extremi-ties of a bone, which gives way between them. Deformity may beproduced by an angular derangement, or a derangement in the direc-tion of the axis, the diameter, or the circumference of the bones are occasioned by a few of the psseous fibres givingway upon the convexity of the curve. The process of reparationis more rapid in the young, and also takes place sooner in a smallthan in a large bone. Danger results, according to the site of theinjury, the nature of the fracture, and the state of the system. Themode of reparation is
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