. A treatise on artificial limbs with rubber hands and feet ... eparate and can be removed from the stump, as repre-sented in Cut 1120. The two parts should be thoroughly oiled on the 29S A. A. MARKS, ARTIFICIAL LIMBS, NEW YORK CITY. insides. then put together; a strong cord should be passed aroundthem, aud a little plaster spread down each side and around the bot-tom so as to seal the seam. After this is done, enough plaster shouldbe mixed to fill the mold. It should be thinner than before, and pouredinto the mold very slowly. See Cut No. 1121. After the mold hasbeen filled it should be laid
. A treatise on artificial limbs with rubber hands and feet ... eparate and can be removed from the stump, as repre-sented in Cut 1120. The two parts should be thoroughly oiled on the 29S A. A. MARKS, ARTIFICIAL LIMBS, NEW YORK CITY. insides. then put together; a strong cord should be passed aroundthem, aud a little plaster spread down each side and around the bot-tom so as to seal the seam. After this is done, enough plaster shouldbe mixed to fill the mold. It should be thinner than before, and pouredinto the mold very slowly. See Cut No. 1121. After the mold hasbeen filled it should be laid aside for two or three hours. The shellcan then be broken off, and the cast obtained will be a fac-simile ofthe stump. This method is especially adapted to knee-joint, ankle-joint, foot, elbow-joint, wrist-joint, and part of hand amputations. PLASTER BANDAGE METHOD. An excellent method for taking a plaster cast of a flabby stump, or astump that has to be compressed in order to obtain tight fittings, isknown as the plaster bandage method, explained as follows:. No. 1122. Take five or six strips of cheese cloth or crinoline, or any other thinand open cloth, two inches wide and about twelve feet long, spreaddry plaster on each, as shown in cut No. 1122: put only enough on tofill the meshes. Each, strip should be rolled up snugly and stump should be made bare, and all the hair removed by shaving,
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