A concise treatise on dislocations and fractures. : Being a selection from the most approved foreign and English surgical authorities. From the days of Celsus to the present time. Illustrated by eighteen plates, containing nearly fifty examples of the most approved methods of operation and bandaging, etc. etc. To which is now added, for the first time, Antonio Scarpa's Minute anatomy of the bones. Translated from the last Latin edition.

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1835
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Credit: A concise treatise on dislocations and fractures. : Being a selection from the most approved foreign and English surgical authorities. From the days of Celsus to the present time. Illustrated by eighteen plates, containing nearly fifty examples of the most approved methods of operation and bandaging, etc. etc. To which is now added, for the first time, Antonio Scarpa's Minute anatomy of the bones. Translated from the last Latin edition. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    in extending, by means of the towel, if required. Second Method. The patient is placed in a chair, the sca- pulae is fixed by a bandage, with a slit {Plate iW. Jig, 2) in it which admits the arm; this must be secured by tapes over the acromion, so as to keep it well in the axilla. A wetted roller is to be placed round the arm, immediately above the elbow, and upon it fix a very strong worsted tape, by what is termed the clovehitch. The arm is to be raised at right angles with the body, or a little above the horizontal line, to relax the deltoid and supra spinatus muscles. Two persons then holding the scapula ban- dage should keep it fixed, whilst two others draw from the bandage affixed to the arm, with a steady, equal, and combined force. After the extension has been kept up for a few minutes, the surgeon should place his knee in the axilla, {vide Plate iii.) resting