Identifier: surgeonshandbook1884esma (find matches)
Title: The surgeon's handbook on the treatment of wounded in war : a prize essay
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Esmarch, Friedrich von, 1823-1908
Subjects: Military Medicine Wounds and Injuries Surgery, Military
Publisher: London : Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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VOLCKERS plaster of Paris bandage with strips of wood. 3. If it is desirable to suspend the extremity, e. g., on account of awound on the posterior aspect, which is being treated by the openmethod, a pair of laths can be fastened behind with a cord attached,which is carried over a gallows (fig. 213). The pelvis must then be placed high upon a pillow, provided withan outlet for the passage of the excreta.
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Suspension of a plaster of Paris bandage for the lower extremity. yj. The treatment by extension has lately been employed with thebest results, not only in inflammation of joints, but also in simple andcompound fractures of the thigh. Among the imperfect, but simple extensions, which are always usefulfor the first dressing, belong: ft. The Desault-Liston splint (fig. 214) with the lower end im-proved by Haynes Walton (fig. 215): the foot is fastened to it by a 7* JOO Fig. 214.

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