American medical digest. . splint, thus held in position resting onan inclined plane, supports the front ofthe shoulder and restores, as it were,the broken clavicle, while the patient isput to very little inconvenience ; he can SURGERY. 3 walk about or lie down with perfectsafety. The dressings must be thor-oughly stitched together. I have, during the past few months,treated several cases in this manner, and. with better success than I ever saw byother appliances ; sometimes simplyplacing the splint under a tight fittingvest (Fig. 4), with the arm in a sling,and the vest sewed or pinned to spl
American medical digest. . splint, thus held in position resting onan inclined plane, supports the front ofthe shoulder and restores, as it were,the broken clavicle, while the patient isput to very little inconvenience ; he can SURGERY. 3 walk about or lie down with perfectsafety. The dressings must be thor-oughly stitched together. I have, during the past few months,treated several cases in this manner, and. with better success than I ever saw byother appliances ; sometimes simplyplacing the splint under a tight fittingvest (Fig. 4), with the arm in a sling,and the vest sewed or pinned to splint. Mode of Fixation of the Scapula and Fract-ure of the Coracoid Process. At a meeting of the Royal Medicaland Chirurgical AburthnotLane read a paper on this subject. Heshowed that in extreme flexion of theshoulder joint the scapula undergoes amovement of rotation upon an axiswhose general direction is obliquely in-wards and forwards, and that this ro-tation is abruptly limited by the im-pact of the coracoid process upon theunder surface of the clavicle. Heillustrated the manner in which thefrequent performance of this movementunder the influence of considerablestrain determines in such laborers thedevelopment of a coraco-clavicular ar-ticulation, the mechanism of which hehad already described in the GuysHospital Reports, 1886. He then re-ferred to the very great difficulty whichis usual
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