This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 edition. Excerpt: ... the slightest degree of flexion at the knee. The rectus femoris is freed from tension by elevating the leg on cushions or other supports. The dressing just described operates very well when the bandages wholly prevent the ties from slipping, but practically it is found that they will not. To obviate ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 edition. Excerpt: ... the slightest degree of flexion at the knee. The rectus femoris is freed from tension by elevating the leg on cushions or other supports. The dressing just described operates very well when the bandages wholly prevent the ties from slipping, but practically it is found that they will not. To obviate that serious defect Dr. Sanborn, of Lowell, Mass., devised a modification of the old plan, using adhesive strips in place of the ties or uniting bandages. He recommends a strip of ordinary adhesive plaster four feet long and two and a half inches wide to be applied to the anterior aspect of the limb from the upper portion of the thigh to the middle of the leg, leaving a free loop at the knee for purposes presently to be explained. The ends of the strip to within a few inches of the knee, are bound in place by a couple of rollers--one for the foot and leg, as in Cooper's dressing, and the other for the thigh. A hard roller compress is placed immediately above the upper fragment, and then a small stick, as a twister, is put through the loop, and revolved until great power is brought to bear upon the parts to which the adhesive strip is attached. This is an efficient and easily applied apparatus, and good results may be obtained from its use. I have employed it in one instance, with the addition of a single inclined plane to elevate the foot, and secured a bony union of the fragments. If the fracture occurs from direct violence there will be danger of a high grade of inflammation and anchylosis. Cooling and anodyne lotions that will not interfere with the dressings, should be freely employed during the early part of the treatment. At the expiration of four or five weeks from the reception of the injury, passive motion is to be instituted, and...
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Poor/No Jacket. Ex-Library Usual ex-library features. Pages are smudged, darkened with age, and marked. Pages and binding are tight. Cover is badly scuffed, discolored, and worn with leather chipping off all around. 424 pages including index. Illustrated.
