FR 
sige i wounded, gts care muft be taken to drefs thé 
and change the dreflings as often as iodo A 
ee fhould alfo be put over a foot and le 
“The other tarfal bones cannot be fraGrored, without the 
ery often the mifchief done is fo great, 
n mutt be fo done as = remove the w ole 
of the foot. The practitioner may either operate at 
the ankle-joint juft above this eee eee or in ae ufual place, 
a little below the infertion of the flexor tendons of the leg, 
as his tae Wap may direct. 
Whe 
the metatarfal bones, or ‘toes, are 
fractured, and 
ponis applied ; and then a com 
needlefs to add, “the patient mutt remain in n bed until the 
ne is repaired. 
fes. of the pone haerics 
Les CEnvres een re ae par Bicha 
Fracture, in Min-ralogy. See.Mrn 
FRADES, Dos, in Geagraphy, a river oe “Brafil, which 
runs into the Atlantic, §. lat 
Franum Lingua, Divifion of, an opera ration.in Surgery, 
fometimes neceffary in o — to ake infants to fuck, and 
hie fo form the 
membrane, te nae the mouth, forms underneath 
fold, to which we have juft now allude 
nominated by ean the oo ligament of the tongue 
but its tua name is the fren nck 
culating’ words, w revented, 
The, method of remoting this defe& confifts of an opera- 
tion which has the femblance : being pacwaan fimple, 
fince nothing more ig requulite,. a trifling cut 
a. part of very inconfid derable thie kne: Swen it is an 
undoubted truth, that, if fuch incifion oe © carclefsly perform- 
ed, very bad aad fatal confequences may | be mite the fub- 
jets therefore, d fuppofed 
The firit circumitance worthy of notice, is never to cut 
fraenum lin te of new-born children, unlefs the o 
ment of 
FRE 
It thould be well known by.all furgeons. that. there axe 
fevcrat taufes which may prévent a. Sime a fucking 
without the frenum linguz bein ned, “When 
the nipple is fo {mall that the ond enn emia = ‘tt fufficiently 
into its, mouth, or on the contrary, pias the nipple i is fo 
nt ‘cannot fix it in i fome tim: 
Fach aay 
cafe, it has been found i in fome..meafure “necef ot ch 
the child how to move its oe 5 prefii on this toch 
downward and keeping it in rea pofition with a fpatula, 
until the nipple has been put into the mouth 
‘held oF P uth and ieee 
taken 
r the rf 
of iracek by introducing a fin into oiee uth. ‘When 
the child can infinuate its tongue under t pa ich 
sane — in a kind of concavity on the upper furface of that 
when the child is alfo capable of dra its 
ch no 
ocile, and confequently lefs apt to 
at the time, when the operator is engaged i in, making the- 
eae thie cut. 
me inftances the frenum i is-found. to. extend too far 
under furface of. the 
tongue, from the apex backward, is quite unconne¢ted with 
the frenum. Alfo when this. part, by reafon of its fhort- 
nefs, ties the tongue too clofely to the bottom of the mouth, 
ed. the furgeon cannot raife the tongue to the palate with his 
re) 
fingers, 
The frenum lingua i is to be divided with a pair of ve 
fharp f{ciffars without points. The furgeon is. ts make the 
Petit was in the habit of: employing the common. diredtor, 
the 
