On a new method of managing fractures : from the address in surgery, delivered at the Twentieth Anniversary Meeting of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association, held at Oxford, on Wednesday and Thursday, July 21st and 22nd, 1852 / by James Torry Hester.

  • Hester, James Torrey.
Date:
1853
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Credit: On a new method of managing fractures : from the address in surgery, delivered at the Twentieth Anniversary Meeting of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association, held at Oxford, on Wednesday and Thursday, July 21st and 22nd, 1852 / by James Torry Hester. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Figures IX. and X. show the instrument turned on the inner and outer sides. In the treatment of most fractures of the humerus, the instrument Fig. XI. will, I think, be most efficient. I consider it essential in the treatment of fractures of this bone, that the arm should be kept fixed to the side, and that no sleeve should be put on till firm union has taken place. The splint (Fig. XII.) will, I think, be found effectual for most fractures of the fore-arm. The common plan of placing the arm on a long flat splint I consider most objectionable. Figure XIII. shows in how uncomfortable a position the arm is placed when a long flat splint is made use of; whilst Fig. XIV. demonstrates how much more comfortably it rests when mine is employed. The palm of the hand is received on a rounded projection in the drawing Fig. XII., whilst the thumb rests on the flattened part at its side. The dotted lines in Fig. XII. show that the part of the splint which supports the hand may be turned down for fracture of the carpal end of the radius. I rarely apply two splints in treating fracture of the fore-arm; and I should not omit to add, that in treating all cases of fracture, I fix the extremities of the injured limb to the apparatus before I make extension or any attempt at reduction.