FRACTURE 
4 muft for ever be wrong upon any — principle. The 
intention, in applying any kind of external medicine to a 
broken. or olight to to ee {s inflammation ; 
 difperfe extravafated blood; to keep the fkin lax, maoift 
rit ve pira 7a ae t e time, to afford fome, 
ture, much ced even than a 
relax. next proceeds to recommend the Crap. 
cerate platter, which, he donnie lies very eafy, repels. 
inflammation, is not adherent, comes off clean, ‘and very 
feldom, if ever, irritates or caules either herpes or ery- 
fipe las. 
ractical maxim ree this writer urged was, 
that ee application be made to the yaa it fhou 
a manner as will allow 
eur 
fibly nce ‘to t n ill any one con- 
tend, that when a broken limb has been, once depofited in 
the beft pofition poffible, that fuch pofition can be mended, 
merely by taking fuch limb up and laying it down again. 
—_ ae fa&ts led Mr. Pott to condemn the employment of 
of apparatus, which could not be taken off without 
ment of Fraé utes in fst The an nts, and the: majority 
b' practitioners up to the time of ian ufed to apply what 
is commonly called a roller,. which was of different nee 
or fometimes confifted of one, two, or more pieces. ip- 
ocrates was in the oo of employing three ; Celfus, fix 3 
and later furgeons; one. remarks, "that, by oa 
= of bandage, ‘ie teeotien ns were formerly.aimed a 
. to confine the fracture, to r ine or. prevent a flux oF 
he callus 
renewal,-is -moft likely to give pain,and trouble, muft be 
more improper and lefs eligible than one which is more eafily 
ap lied, Jefs liable to be out ie order, and which can be ade 
jufted without moving the hi 
The degree nA Support a feadie communicated to a 
by: obvioufly 
fraCtured limb a linen roller, mutt be very 
‘trivial, The old ide, alfo, of preventing a flux of humours, 
andage, was entirely ecg If, fays 
ame Bind of 
et ae re or indifcretion the patient; or of thofe who 
affifted in gettin hom nit or fr he violence ufed m 
om: t. 
extending the limb and fetting the fra@tur ion 
muft be excited, and pain and tumefaction will be the confe- 
ill be longer or fhorter, in 
different circumitances. Evacua- 
€, in bringing about this ety 
fit, than eet fhe spplcation in a proper p | on the 
contrary, if the bandage er, it mutt, re= 
quent neceffity of its being adjutted, and the fr ae merce 
he the on in fome —— counteract the proper intention 
The ; 
sa particular j juice 
f fr ike res, for bas 
aed kind of fluid is undoubtedly the 
medium came ott very 
ably explains, oS art is b able o managing 
it. Headmits, that the callus, does oftentimes create tum 
faction and deformity, or even lamenefs ; but, e contends 
that the fault, in thefe cafes, acd not ce in he a 
dundance of fuch juice : it is derived from the nature ‘of the 
fr; » from the inequality of it a fet, and: from the 
inapt Poe of the broken os with regard to each Hees 
0 
one has = ica. trsnfertly, or aproue a and its ine- 
rae are pins fore neither eg oe ae 
sally 3 when the parts of a 
as not to admit of exact coaptation ; when fuch 
aptation, as the fra¢ture perhaps would have. admitted, has 
not been judicioufly ma when unmanageablenefs, 
vertence, or fpafm, the. proper pofition of the limb has 
not been attended to, .or preferved all fuch cafes, there 
mutt: be. confiderable inequality of furface ; there m 
rifings on one fide, and depreffions on: another 3 ;. and the callus 
cannot unite t! parts in n the fame time, or in the fame Ways 
as when the fracture is tranfverfe, and evenly fet, ‘The de- 
formity will be proportioned to the greater or leffer- erat 
