Treatment of compound fractures. Part One.

The method of treating compound fractures of the leg and knee both surgically and post-operatively (with and without plaster) is demonstrated. Evidence is provided of the efficacy of treatment with recovered patients walking before the camera displaying a normal gait. The surgical footage is, however, rather graphic despite the nature and age of the material. Treatment is devised to ward against infection. A severely emaciated male patient is shown with sepsis as a result of an infected hip joint. He is almost entombed with spica plaster. His condition improves (very indistinct graphs are shown). Two years later he is seen recovered, if not scared and needing to walk with the aid of sticks. The last case is of a yachtsman who shot off a large part of his tibia with a starting rifle; the wound is large and oozing. The injury took a year to heal. Intertitle; End of part one.