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SURGICAL THERAPEUTICS. 



Fig. 104.— Perforated Compress. 



Fig. 103.— Graduated Compress- 



by the case. Tliej' are commonly used in tlieir entire thickness, 

 but are sometimes made with a hole in their center, and then 

 receive the name of perforated or fenestrated. 



(Jb) Rollers have already occupied our attention. 



(c) Splints. — These are long, flat, and more or less rigid strips 

 of wood, or other material, designed to be added to other dress- 

 ings, to give them some j)eculiar form or position, and to consoh- 

 date and strengthen them by increasing their rigidity. They are 

 usually api^lied upon the extremities or superior parts of the body, 

 and are composed not only of wood, but of hard leather, paste- 

 board, tin, gutta-percha, etc., etc., and maintained in jiosition by 

 bands or adhesive mixtures. They must be carefully and accu- 

 rately applied in order to avoid chafing or excoriating the skin, 

 and are often padded, and their borders made especially smooth 

 and uniform. 



{d) Plates. — These are small pieces of metal or wood, need 

 principally in the sui'gery of the foot, to keej^ in place dressings 

 of the i^lantar region, which require more or less pressure upon 



Fig. 105.— Plates on Shoes. 



