A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . Woods apparatus. Dr. Dorsey, of Philadelphia, employed a very simple apparatuswhich will serve to illustrate the general plan adopted by many sur-geons, both at home and abroad. It is liable, however, to the objec- Fis. John SyDg Dorseys patella splint. tion already stated, namely, that it interrupts too much the circula-tion of the limb. His apparatus consists of a piece of wood half an 1 Malgaigne, Traite des Fractures, etc., op. cit., p. 764. 2 Fergussons Surgery, p. 307. FEACTUEES OF THE PATELLA. 441 inch thick and two or three inc
A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . Woods apparatus. Dr. Dorsey, of Philadelphia, employed a very simple apparatuswhich will serve to illustrate the general plan adopted by many sur-geons, both at home and abroad. It is liable, however, to the objec- Fis. John SyDg Dorseys patella splint. tion already stated, namely, that it interrupts too much the circula-tion of the limb. His apparatus consists of a piece of wood half an 1 Malgaigne, Traite des Fractures, etc., op. cit., p. 764. 2 Fergussons Surgery, p. 307. FEACTUEES OF THE PATELLA. 441 inch thick and two or three inches wide, and long enough to extendfrom the buttock to the heel; near the middle of this splint, and sixinches apart, two bands of strong doubled muslin, a yard long, arenailed. The splint is then cushioned, and the limb laid upon it, aroller being first applied from the ankle to the groin, encompassingthe knee in the form of the figureof-8; after which the two muslinbands are secured across the knee in such a manner as that the lowerone shall draw down the upper fragment, and the upper one elevatethe lower fragment. A single instance will explain the danger of ligation to which Ihave alluded, and which, although it may be greater in case a starchor dextrine bandage is
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