Military medical and surgical essays ; prepared for the United States Sanitary Commission . ©. Wire splints may be adapted to the leg, as to thethigh; and any form of apparatus that is used willbe made more tolerable by the suspension of the entirelimb. It is better in these cases, in fitting the wiresplint, to make the angle at the knee more obtusethan for a fracture of the thigh, and always to hangthe limb in such a way that the broken bones may behorizontal. Should lateral angular deformity occur after frac-ture of the leg, it must be corrected by a carefuladaptation of Dupuytrens plan, by
Military medical and surgical essays ; prepared for the United States Sanitary Commission . ©. Wire splints may be adapted to the leg, as to thethigh; and any form of apparatus that is used willbe made more tolerable by the suspension of the entirelimb. It is better in these cases, in fitting the wiresplint, to make the angle at the knee more obtusethan for a fracture of the thigh, and always to hangthe limb in such a way that the broken bones may behorizontal. Should lateral angular deformity occur after frac-ture of the leg, it must be corrected by a carefuladaptation of Dupuytrens plan, by binding the limbto a lateral splint, with a wedge-shaped compressarranged so as to bear against the projecting angle. When, at an advanced stage of the treatment offractures of the leg, pasteboard splints are used, theyshould always be applied to the sides of the limb;never to its posterior surface. IN MILITARY SURGERY. 455 Fractures of the tarsal and metatarsal bones, as seenin military practice, are very apt not only to be com-pound, but to require amputation. In favorable cases,inflamma
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