Identifier: operativesurgery00pipe (find matches)
Title: Operative surgery illustrated : containing more than nineteen hundred engravings : including two hundred original, and fifty colored drawings: with explanatory text
Year: 1852 (1850s)
Authors: Piper, Richard Upton, 1816-1897 Bigelow, Henry Jacob, 1818-1890. Anaesthetic agents, their mode of exhibition, and physiological effects
Subjects: Surgery, Operative Ether General Surgery
Publisher: Boston : Ticknor, Reed, and Fields
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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oulder, or by passing a towel over the shoulder and fixing it to theopposite corner of the bed ; then the arm is raised from the side, anddrawn straight up by the head, till the bone is elevated into its socket. 5. By the knee in the axilla, (Fig. 4.) The patient being seatedin a chair, the surgeon places one of his knees in the axilla, restingthe foot on the chair. He then puts one hand on the shoulder, to fixthe scapula, and with the other depresses the elbow over the knee. The Dislocation of the Humerus forward may be re-duced by the heel in the axilla, or by extension with the towel orpulleys. But the extension must be made in a direction downwardand backward. For the Dislocation backward extension should be madeforward. The Partial Dislocation forward may be reduced by sim-ple extension. After reduction, a pad should be placed in theaxilla, and the arm and shoulder be supported for some days with afigure 8 bandage, a few turns of which should confine the arm tothe trunk. PI. 149.
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