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BARRENS. 
lage 5 but :* te the twilted future, 
no aot of Pe ny kind is a ayers Such Sart as pafs 
on their backs, and move or turn their heads to one > hie or 
‘the other, It is alfo it difficult to put on a bandage of 
this kind, with the prope r degree of tightnefs, and confe- 
SESH it is’ generally either too tight or too flack. 
ter refers to a cafe, in which, in confequence of fome 
trouble being experienced in bringing the edges of the 
wound properly together, the bandage was applied with 
panies. fo that the lip was preffed in fuch a way againtt 
ge of f the upper incifor teeth, as to have a deep im- 
bet on in it. en this accident was difcovered, 
‘more than a half of the lip had been cut through. 
‘Richter’s Obfervationum Chirurgi 
With regard to the et which have been recommended 
tO 3M 
it is neceflary the dimentions of the patient’s 
d 
of the bufinefs, the bandage will either not fit at all, or elfe — 
very badly. In a word, ay Richter, repeated experi- 
ence Er that the operation feldom fails with the twifted 
future, and that 
great care and attentio on. 
puthed off. 
»pofed by M. Valentin, (fee Recherches 
irurgie M » feems to be of — 
the precaution of covering the blades with oe foft fub- 
flance. An _inconfiderabl che will not fuffice for 
keeping the fides o icularly when 
eee , 4: ca 
2d “The ip 
ly hia : rows flack, 
ss frequently does fo with a ees, not- 
val of a portion on each fide, that there is fearcely room 
enough for the application of the inflrument.. Ms 
n the whole, the foregoing writer concludes, that 
a ep adhefive platter, and other means of o obtaining air 
union of the wound, propofed by fome of the moderns to be 
e adopted after the operation for the hare-lip, are not fuch as 
ought to be preferred, and the future is freer from ob- 
—~ than has been re ted. 
n a few favourable iafance, perhaps, a bandage may by 
itfelf prove effeGiual ; but Richter maintains, that it is ale 
ways uncertain, and _ -. future, in mot cafes, ought ‘not 
to be abandoned. The latter alw ae an{wers in fimp *5 ealy 
cafes ; and in thofe which are attended with more. 
hefive platter. But the bandage employed as an 4p to 
the future, not only ought to prefs forward the cheeks, fo as 
to keep the wound from gaping, and the pins from making 
their way through the flefh ; it fhould, at 4 fame time, be 
fuch, as will not cover the whole of the wound, by which 
have not thefe ae Richter thinks, that 
platter anfwers better, when applied in the following manner. 
Two large pieces of the plaiter are to be put upon tl 
ufeful and neceflary. In fimple cafes, where the fiffure 8 
fhort and narrow, the twifted future will Shee every of 
gi of itfelf. — 
little poowspertion which fome have eoonaial to 
— the pins on each fide of the wound, are of no sclinys 
they raife “F a ins, tear and drag the wound, and ct 
ne out of their place. = it 
n, it is always proper, after th operation, 
watch that the bleeding does not ee ; for, as ap 
Sets etree es confeque 
dental Stretillancs, the drefiings 
