This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1848 Excerpt: ... up along the other side of the leg, and buckled to that which has been fixed around the thigh; it may be confined to the foot by a tape tied to it, and to the leg, at any part, in the same manner. This is a very convenient bandage for the fractured patella, and for the patella dislocated upwards by the laceration of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1848 Excerpt: ... up along the other side of the leg, and buckled to that which has been fixed around the thigh; it may be confined to the foot by a tape tied to it, and to the leg, at any part, in the same manner. This is a very convenient bandage for the fractured patella, and for the patella dislocated upwards by the laceration of its ligament. A roller is to be applied around the leg. (Op. cit. p. 205.) (See fig. 71.) Fig. 71. M. Desault directed that the limb should be held in the position above advised, by an assistant, and a roller passed around the leg from the toes to the knee, confining on the front of the leg a band about two inches wide and of the length of the limb; then that two longitudinal slits be made in this band, opposite the patella, through which the surgeon passes two fingers and approximates the fragments: that a compress be applied just above the upper fragment and retained there by several turns of the roller passing around the knee in the form of the figure 8; the bandage now should cover the thigh, a padded splint, as long as the limb, should be confined upon its under surface, and the whole supported on an inclined plane. M. Gerdy employs an invaginated bandage, such as is used in the approximation of the lips of transverse wounds. (See chap, on Wounds.) The leg, as high as the knee, is enveloped by a roller, which also confines upon the front of the leg the tailed portion of the bandage, the slit portion being secured upon the front of the thigh by a second roller; then, having placed a compress above the upper fragment, and another below the inferior, pass the tails of the bandage through the slits, and approximate the fragments; this having been effected, lay the portions of the bandage smoothly along the limb, and secure them by turns of a r...
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