The essentials of bandaging : including the management of fractures and dislocations, with directions for using other surgical apparatus / by Berkeley Hill.

  • Hill Berkeley, 1834-1892.
Date:
1867
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The essentials of bandaging : including the management of fractures and dislocations, with directions for using other surgical apparatus / by Berkeley Hill. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    round it; a piece of stiff wood, 1 inch wide, J inch thick, and 12 long, is perforated at one end with three pairs of holes inch distant from each other and from the end; through these, three stout tapes, \ inch wide and 2 feet long, are threaded, leaving three loops on one side of the piece of wood (fig. 62). The wood is then applied to the palmar aspect of the phalanges, the loops passed over the thumb, their ends drawn Fig. 62.—Handle for obtaining grasp of the thumb in dislocation. tight, and tied, not in a bow as the figure represents, but wound round the end of the stick. The stick thus attached becomes a good handle for extending the digit, and also a long lever for altering the direction of the phalanx if desired. Langenbeck of Berlin employs a pair of forceps to seize the thumb, instead of the wooden handle just described. But with the greatest care and perseverance it is sometimes impossible to replace the bone unless the constricting bands be divided wTith a tenotome. Hip-joint.—There are three chief directions in which the hip is dislocated. First backwards on the dorsum ilii, or further on to the sciatic notch. In this dislocation the limb is shortened, moved with difficulty, drawn inwards over the other, and its great toe touches some part of the back of the other foot. The hip itself is