A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . ess of the ulna; hand is maintained in a position between pronation and supination; 6. Ifthe dressing proves too tight, anyone may loosen it by raising the ends of theplaster sufficiently, and then reapplying them ; the fingers and wrist have veryfree motion.] Professor Fauger, of Copenhagen, has undertaken to treat this fracture insome sense without any splint, the forearm and hand being simply laid over adouble-inclined plane, so as to bring the wrist into a state of forced flexion. The hand having been brought into a position of str
A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . ess of the ulna; hand is maintained in a position between pronation and supination; 6. Ifthe dressing proves too tight, anyone may loosen it by raising the ends of theplaster sufficiently, and then reapplying them ; the fingers and wrist have veryfree motion.] Professor Fauger, of Copenhagen, has undertaken to treat this fracture insome sense without any splint, the forearm and hand being simply laid over adouble-inclined plane, so as to bring the wrist into a state of forced flexion. The hand having been brought into a position of strong flexion, the forearm isplaced, pronated, on an oblique plane, with the carpus highest, the hand beingpermitted to hang freely down the perpendicular end of the M. Vel-peau, in a report of his surgical clinic at La Charite for the year ending Sep-tember, 1846, says this plan has been tried during this year, and the result hasnot been very satisfactory. The experiment, however, has not been decisiveupon this mode of treatment. 2 Fig. Hewits splint. The late Henry S. Hewit, of this city, devised a very ingenious splint, bywhich the mobility of the wrist and fingers mi^ht be more perfectly retained,and the wrist put into any desirable position. The following is the descriptiongiven by himself of the apparatus: The wooden ball grasped by the hand isconnected by a rod to a slender bar running longitudinally upon the face of thesplint, and capable of being flexed at any desirable length. The rod is attachedto the travelling connection by a universal joint, giving play to the ball in lim-ited movements of flexion, extension, pronation, and supination. The naturaltendency is for the patient to make these movements, and perpetually to relaxand contract the fingers. The splint upon the inner surface of the arm is antag-onized by a plain flat splint on the outer surface, extending to the superiorborder of the wrist-joint. This splint has been used for upward of two yearsb
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