The treatment of fractures / by W. L. Estes.
- Estes, William Lawrence, 1855-
- Date:
- [1900]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The treatment of fractures / by W. L. Estes. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.
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![As: splint its . re found plaster-of-I sitd - int placed on the anterior surface of the arm the best appar The apposition spliut should be : fit snugly down into the flexure of the elbow, long enoug . just ah :achment of the deltoid m. - and the anterior surface of the limb. Tii s appositi l splint ts as . fulcrum and i padded. I think it is important to keep the hand in pronation, and the elbo~ - :>nld be flexed to . angle. The plaster-of-Paris shonld reach from the fi:ig rs t : axilla. If all this ou]d be allowed to remain undisturbed for four . >uld be cure- fully cut and rem _ Examine the seat of. fra :f the position is good make careful and gentle passive movemei. Is the limb, or : onge it off with alcohol, and replace the spline After this da - ts should be employed, increasing the period a: _ . Then the:. may be r : tiYe and passive moTements be continued, under direction, for two mo:](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2102537x_0076.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
