A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . Extension during application of plaster of Paris. arise. In case it becomes loose it cannot be refitted by cutting out aportion and folding the splint in again, since it is too inflexible, and itwill not be made to bear upon the same points as before. At Bellevue,when a plaster dressing becomes loose it is always removed and a newone applied in the same manner as at first. Fi<;. Extension continued until the plaster is hard. Finally, having considered somewhat at length the leading plans oftreatment which have, from time to time, be
A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . Extension during application of plaster of Paris. arise. In case it becomes loose it cannot be refitted by cutting out aportion and folding the splint in again, since it is too inflexible, and itwill not be made to bear upon the same points as before. At Bellevue,when a plaster dressing becomes loose it is always removed and a newone applied in the same manner as at first. Fi<;. Extension continued until the plaster is hard. Finally, having considered somewhat at length the leading plans oftreatment which have, from time to time, been suggested and employed. •20 442 FRACTURES OF THE FEMUR. Fig. 184. by our best surgeons both at home and abroad, I desire to describe ingreater detail those methods and forms of apparatus which my own ex-perience has taught me to prefer. As to posture, my opinions are in accord with the opinions of a vastmajority of the most experienced surgeons of the present day. Thestraight position will, on the average, give the best results. Carefulmeasurements made by myself in several hundreds of cases, a portion ofwhich have been published in my statistical tables,1 have demonstratedthat the average shortening of. the limb is greater after any method oftreatment in which the flexed position is employed, than after treatmentwith extension in the straight position. These observations have alsoshown that the flexed position, contrary to th
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