A manual of minor surgery and bandaging for the use of house surgeons, dressers and junior practitioners.

  • Christopher Heath
Date:
1862
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Credit: A manual of minor surgery and bandaging for the use of house surgeons, dressers and junior practitioners. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    the heel; but this will generally be unnecessary, if the foot is properly secured to the foot-piece, and it is i-ather apt to rub the patient's skin. A turn or two of bandage having been made around the ankle in order to fix the roller, and the foot having then been secured to the S])lint, some cotton wool should be inserted between the malleoli and the side of the splint, to prevent any rubbing at those points; and the fracture being in proper position—the best criterion of which is that the great toe is in a line with the inner border of the patella—the bandage can be carried round the splint and as far up the leg as may be deemed necessary. Another roller around the thigh and upper part of the splint will complete the arrangement, which can be rendered infinitely more comfortable to the patient by swinging the whole limb either to an ordinary cradle or to a Salter's swing, Avhich allows of more extended movement on the patient's part, and gives great facilities for dressing compound fractures, &c.* In many hospitals three splints are employed for aU Fig. 43. fractures of the tibia, the back one being a straight splint reaching to the ham, with a foot-piece at right