Minor surgery, or, Hints on the every-day duties of the surgeon . In this apparatus both limbs are confined, andthe counter extension is made at the acetabulumof the sound side by means of the sound , we must guard against any bendingof the sound knee, as that would at once do away 250 MINOR SURGERY. with the use of the sound limb as a splint, andpermit shortening. A very simple apparatus for the treatment ofcertain cases of this fracture, is to be found in thefollowing plan. gibsons simple-inclined plane. Composition. — A board sixteen inches wide,two feet four inches high, a
Minor surgery, or, Hints on the every-day duties of the surgeon . In this apparatus both limbs are confined, andthe counter extension is made at the acetabulumof the sound side by means of the sound , we must guard against any bendingof the sound knee, as that would at once do away 250 MINOR SURGERY. with the use of the sound limb as a splint, andpermit shortening. A very simple apparatus for the treatment ofcertain cases of this fracture, is to be found in thefollowing plan. gibsons simple-inclined plane. Composition. — A board sixteen inches wide,two feet four inches high, and with six mortisesnear its upper extremity, is placed vertically;another board of similar breadth and length isplaced horizontally; a third, three feet long, andextending from the extremity of the horizontalone to within ten inches of the top of the uprightone, forms an inclined plane, and the whole joinedtogether forms a triangle. Fig. At the lower end of the inclined board is an open-ing six inches wide and eight long, to allow of thepassage of faeces and urine to a vessel a re likewise two mattresses, two foot cushions,and a pair of gaiters. The larger mattress of the MINOR SURGERY. 251 length and breadth of the inclined board is a half inches thick, and fastened to the boardby straps on its edges. The smaller mattress fillsup the opening for the passage of faeces, &c. Thegaiters and foot cushions are as before described ;and lastly, there are two round pins, each sixinches long, which are passed through holes in theinclined plane. Application. — Place the patient on this, as seenin Fig. 173, the fastening of the feet makes theextension, and the weight of the body the counter-extension, and thus places the limbs in an easyposition, and one very favourable to the reductionof any inflammation. Where, from peculiar cir-cumstances, we wish to allow a certain degree ofmotion to the limb, we ma
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