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Title: Buffalo medical journal
Year: 1914 (1910s)
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Subjects: Medicine
Publisher: Buffalo, N.Y. : (s.n.)
Contributing Library: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Historical Medical Library
Digitizing Sponsor: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the National Endowment for the Humanities

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Fig. 3 BUCHANAN: PLASTIC SPLINTS 65 publication is justified as an effort to bring the advantages of thismethod of making splints to the notice of the profession. The illustrations herewith given are of leg splints only, andthey are the only ones kept constantly in reserve; but in fracturesof the arm, forearm and femur (in the last, only where consoli-dation is advanced) ; in immobilization of joints for inflammatoryand tubercular conditions and after excision of joints, reductionof dislocations and in other joint injuries, the employment ofsplints of the same kind in appropriate shapes has been practical-ly invariable. The splint proper consists of a body of six to eight layers ofcrinoline, into the meshes of which plaster of Paris has beenrubbed, with a facing and back of lintine, which is a thin, smooth-
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Fig. 4 surfaced sheet of compressed cotton. Leg splints are in suchdaily requirement and are of such uniform size that it has beenfound desirable to have considerable numbers of them in readinessat all times; but splints for other parts are made to order in ex-actly the same way, of such size and shape as the case may demand. Preparation of the Splint.—^Cut the required number (6 to 8)of pieces of crinoline of the size and shape of the splint desired.Cut two pieces of lintine of the same size and shape. Lay oneof the crinoline shapes on a table and rub plaster of Paris wellinto its meshes. Lay on it exactly another crinoline shape andrub its meshes full. Repeat this till the requisite numberlayers of crinoline are together. 66 BUCHANAN I PLASTIC SPLINTS Figure 1 shows two sets of the manifold crinoline shapes, fourlintine shapes and three gauze bandages with a tin container.These are all the materials necessary for the application of

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