The Lancet, Volume 2J. Onwhyn, 1839 - Medicine |
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Page 425 - When this accident occurs below the middle of the bone, it is usually treated at the hospital by extension, and counterextension. The apparatus used for this purpose is a modification of Desault's, the modification consisting principally in the adaptation of a screw to the...
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Page 426 - I shall not attempt to describe it, as no description would be intelligible without drawings, and its construction is so simple that it would be readily understood by any one who wished to use it. It is adapted to all fractures of the thigh occurring in the upper third of the bone, requiring slight modification in each case, and so constructed that the part on which the thigh is to rest can be made longer or shorter, as may be necessary, to adapt it to the size of the patient. During the last year...
Page 425 - ... them in close contact. Every one, who is at all familiar with the treatment of fractures, knows how great a power pressure exerts in bringing about a bony union. Now Desault's apparatus is not calculated to make this pressure, and some have thought that in fractures of the neck of the thigh bone, the inner splint is apt to separate the fragments by pushing the lower portion outward. There are other indications which are not perfectly answered by this machine, when the fracture is high up. But...