Pye's elementary bandaging and surgical dressing : with directions concerning the immediate treatment of cases of emergency for the use of dressers and nurses.

Walter Pye

Date:: 1910

Credit: Pye's elementary bandaging and surgical dressing : with directions concerning the immediate treatment of cases of emergency for the use of dressers and nurses. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$common “ patella splint,” etc. Not infrequently they are made of strips of wood lined with can\ as, on the plan of the kettle-holder or Gooch s splinting to be presently mentioned ; and other materials, such as rattan, cane, etc., have been used from time to time. The pistol-shaped splint, again, which is sometimes used for Colies’s fracture, is an example of DOWN BKOS LONDON Fig. 38.—Wooden Angular Splint with Hinge. a simple wooden splint, and similarly, Cline's and l iston’s splints are used in cases of fracture of the leg and y.igb respectively a Angular splints {lugs. 30-30], wim ; . hin°x^at the elbow, arc very useful forms in various ° injuries of the arm ; and like other forms of wooden apparatus (e.g., the back splint for the knee), are far more comfortable if the> are somewhat hollowed out, a proceeding which adds but little to their expense. Pig. 39 illustrates a very useful form of an angular metal elbow splint invented by R. Jones, of Liver- pool, specially for compound injuries of Fig, 39.—Angular Metal Elbow Splint. tpat articulation; it is very simple, effective, and cheap. Of the more complicated splints, in w nc l ^ is the principal'material employed, the c ,'e'a.‘e Bryant's '.Fit. 40), for the excision of the hip.$