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licking the parts ; then the splints and bandages 

 must be removed, and the sores washed and 

 dressed by sprinkling the wound over with 

 powdered iodoform before applying the splints 

 and bandages again. The wound may require 

 dressing every other day, or even daily if it 

 is a bad and deep one ; in these cases a pad 

 of some antiseptic gauze, as carbolic gauze, 

 should be applied. 



Fracture of the Radius and Ulna : It is very 

 seldom indeed that one of these bones alone 

 are broken ; if one goes, the other does. They 

 form the arm ; that is, the fore leg from elbow to 

 the knee. 



Treatment : In these cases four padded splints 

 should be applied — one on each side, and one at 

 the back, and one in front of the leg. The one 

 in front must be shorter than the side ones, so 

 as not to rub the front of the elbow joint or 

 the toes, and the one on the inside of the leg 

 should be slightly shorter than the one on the 

 outside. One, two, or three six - yard thin 

 bandages must be fairly firmly applied, com- 

 mencing right down at the foot and carried up 

 over the elbow joint. 



It is a good plan to apply a few strips of Meads 

 plaister over the bandage ; it keeps it from slipping. 



Fracture of the Lower Extremity of the 

 Shoulder Bone, and Humerus : These fractures 

 in the elbow joint almost always consist of a 

 breaking off of the inner condyle of the 

 humerus, and as a consequence the limb 

 becomes shortened. 



