Orthopaedic surgery for students and general practitioners : preliminary considerations and diseases of the spine : 114 original illustrations / by R. Tunstall Taylor.

  • Taylor, Robert Tunstall, 1867-
Date:
1907
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Credit: Orthopaedic surgery for students and general practitioners : preliminary considerations and diseases of the spine : 114 original illustrations / by R. Tunstall Taylor. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    SURGICAL SUPPLIES, INSTRUMENTS AND NECESSARY APPARATUS.:] As orthopaedic surgery requires a special equipment not usually found in a general surgical armamentarium, it may be^well to go somewhat into detail in regard to certain apphances and supplies which should be at hand to facili- tate work. THE PLASTER OF PARIS BANDAGE. Perhaps no one thing, if properly made of suitable mate- rials, is more useful and constantly needed in orthopaedic practice than the plaster bandage and nothing more unsat- isfactory than one which does not set properly, is gritty, heay)^, lumpy or thick. A wet plaster bandage should feel, before application, smooth, uniform and of the consistency of very soft putty. Naturally the elements that enter into a good bandage are the crinoline, plaster of paris and the mode of prepara- tion and keeping. The ordinary crinoline found in ladies' furnishing stores is not suitable for making plaster bandages as it contains glue, which will not mix properly with plaster and retards setting; but the crinoline should be made with starch only. Sometimes one finds in hospitals plaster of paris bandages made of cheese cloth or ordinary surgical gauze or of dress- maker's crinoline with the glue washed out, but none of these are as satisfactory as the starch crinoline named.