Surgical handicraft : a manual of surgical manipulations, minor surgery and other matters connected with the work of house surgeons and surgical dressers / by Walter Pye.

  • Pye, Walter, 1853-1892.
Date:
1885
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Credit: Surgical handicraft : a manual of surgical manipulations, minor surgery and other matters connected with the work of house surgeons and surgical dressers / by Walter Pye. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Kettle-holder Splinting is made by attaching long thin Kettle-holder strips of wood to canvas or leather with strong glue. It is Fig. 92.—Perforated Metal Angular Splint. Fig. 93.— Clines' Metal Splint, interrupted. made in large sheets, and splints of different patterns can be cut or sawn out of it. Its great merit lies in the fact that it is flexible in one direction and rigid in the other. It is especially used for fashioning splints to partially encircle a limb, as in fractures of the arm, or in combination with a back splint in broken thighs. To avoid repetition, a few general directions may here be Padding splints, given as to the ways of padding splints and attaching them, but they can only be of the most general kind. All splints, before they are applied, shoidd be padded, to avoid injury of the softer parts. This may be done in seve- ral ways, and with different materials. Of all paddings, however, the most clastic and convenient is tow, well teased, so that the fibres lie all one way, and with no lumps in it. Soft linen, such as old napkins, etc., makes the best covering for the tow. For the simple forms of splints, the pads should be made like miniature pillows, and either sewn on with a lace stitch