On the advantages of the starched apparatus in the treatment of fractures and diseases of jointsLewis, 1853 - 89 Seiten |
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accident admitted to Ward adopted advantages ankle appa applying the apparatus blebs bony broken bone broken thigh buttock Catherine Cox complained compression confinement to bed constructed crest deformity dextrine disease displacement edges effects elbow examination February femur fibula fixed foot fore-arm Grosseto gun-shot fractures heel Hippocrates humerus iliac crest immovable apparatus inclined plane injury inner integument joint knee knee-joint Larrey Leçons Orales long splint loose lower end M'Intyre Malgaigne means ment method middle moulded oblique fracture padded with cotton-wool pasteboard splints patella patient perfect perfectly easy placed Ponfrit position practice prevented principle prove ratus re-adjusted removed sand-bag scrofulous seat of fracture Seutin shortening skin soaked starched apparatus applied starched bandage surgeons surgery surgical swelling tendo Achillis thick tibia treating fractures treatment of fractures turns of bandage ulna University College Hospital upper fragment Velpeau walking on crutches white of egg wound
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Seite 85 - I had learnt from Mr. Cowper, a bone-setter at Leicester, who set and cured a fracture of my own cubit when I was a boy at school. His way was, after putting the limb in a proper posture, to wrap it up in rags dipped in the whites of eggs, and a little wheat flower mixed; this drying, grew stiff, and kept the limb in a good posture.
Seite 82 - On the Advantages of the Starched Apparatus in the TreatMENT OF FRACTURES AND DISEASES OF JOINTS. Being the First Part of an Essay to which the Council of University Colleg-e Awarded the Liston Clinical Medal.
Seite 34 - The Stocking rises no higher than the Thick of the Calf, and from the Middle of the thigh to the middle of the Leg is a naked space, which being exposed to all Weathers, becomes tanned and freckled^ and the Joint being mostly infected with the Country Distemper, the whole is very disagreeable to the Eye. This Dress is called the Quelt...
Seite 32 - For a considerable period he suffered great pain and swelling of the limb, but has gradually and slowly improved. May, 1822. — At this date he can walk about his room without assistance either of crutch or stick. He has little power of flexion at the knee-joint. The joint is, however apparently movable to a certain extent beneath the patella, which bone is fixed beneath the projecting edge of the upper portion of the femur, which evidently overlaps and displaces it. There is visible shortening...
Seite 66 - ... leather, or of gutta-percha, may be applied so as to embrace one side of the pelvis and two-thirds of the circumference of the thigh, and extending from the short ribs nearly as low as the knee. This being fixed by a strap and a buckle to the pelvis, and in the same manner to the thigh, will be very convenient to...
Seite 65 - ... what is there left for him to do ? The answer is that he can occupy himself with the analysis of these propositions.
Seite 4 - ... the tibia being broken obliquely, so as to allow of projection of the upper fragment forwards. The requisite materials being at hand, three splints are required : a straight one to be placed at the back, and to reach from...
Seite 65 - The abstraction of blood, even by means of leeches, can be required only under some peculiar circumstances, and even when it is thus required, the good which is done is not unmixed with evil. The repeated application of leeches may be regarded as never necessary, and as being invariably injurious. The same may be said of all kinds of what has been called counter-irritation, such as blisters, issues, setons, and the use of the...
Seite 54 - Pott's plan, the long splint, M'Intyre, and their modifications, as a rule entail sensible deformity, which in many cases is very considerable. It is a significant fact, that, though the example established in University College Hospital by the late Mr. Liston, of treating fractures of the thigh by the long splint, and of the leg by the modified M'Intyre, which are admitted equal, if not superior, to other splints, was rigidly followed in that institution, the patients admitted with broken thighs...
Seite 31 - October 16th, the union was considered complete, and the patient allowed to get up. On November 1st he resumed his professional duties as an advocate. For a considerable period he suffered great pain and swelling of the limb, but has gradually and slowly improved. May, 1822. — At this date he can walk about his room without assistance either of crutch or stick. He has little power of flexion at the knee-joint. The joint is, however apparently movable to a certain extent beneath the patella...