The practice of surgery . cation may be either one-sided or bilateral, but in both cases thedeformity is practically the same. Reduction of jaw dislocations is simple and easy when properly under-taken—that is to say, when the patient is thoroughly relaxed by ananesthetic. Perhaps in the case of no other dislocation is a thoroughrelaxation so important. I learned this as a student while endeavoring,in the accident ward of the hospital, to reduce the dislocated jaw of a 942 MINOR SURGERY—DISEASES OF STRUCTURE man imperfectly etherized. I could make no impression whateveron the dislocation, but
The practice of surgery . cation may be either one-sided or bilateral, but in both cases thedeformity is practically the same. Reduction of jaw dislocations is simple and easy when properly under-taken—that is to say, when the patient is thoroughly relaxed by ananesthetic. Perhaps in the case of no other dislocation is a thoroughrelaxation so important. I learned this as a student while endeavoring,in the accident ward of the hospital, to reduce the dislocated jaw of a 942 MINOR SURGERY—DISEASES OF STRUCTURE man imperfectly etherized. I could make no impression whateveron the dislocation, but a senior surgeon, chanchig to go by, pushedthe ether until the patient was completely relaxed, when the head ofthe bone slipped back into its socket almost at a touch. Our sketch shows the method of reducing a dislocation of the its reduction the bone shoidd be held in place for three or fourdays by a four-tailed bandage, and the patient should not be allowedto chew until the soreness has nearly
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