Surgical emergencies : together with the emergencies attendant on parturition and the treatment of poisoning : a manual for the use of general practitioners / by William Paul Swain.

  • Swain, William Paul.
Date:
1874
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Credit: Surgical emergencies : together with the emergencies attendant on parturition and the treatment of poisoning : a manual for the use of general practitioners / by William Paul Swain. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    is the one figured (Eig. 9). It is made with a piece of bandage or muslin^ a yard long, and four inches wide. A slit four inches long is made longitudinally in the centre^ and the ends of the bandage are torn down to within three or four inches of this slit. The chin is then placed in the slit, the anterior tails are tied behind the nape of the neck, the posterior ones over the top of the head, and the two connected together. The lower jaw may be dislocated in one or both Dislocations of sides. In both the displacement is forwards. o'^ ^J '^' The double dislocation is the most frequent. The condyles are drawn upwards and forward by the action of the pterygoid and temporal muscles, and the coronoid processes rest on the back of the superior maxillae. The symptoms are—widely open mouth, and immobility of the jaw, with considerable pain, loss of power of deglutition and articulation. The dislocation may be reduced Beduction. in two ways. Place the patient on the floor with the head between your knees. Then put two pieces of cork as far back as possible between the molars on either side. Press the point of the chin steadily and directly upwards. Or, standing in front of the patient, place your two thumbs well guarded with a towel between the last molars. Grasp the jaw firmly with the hands. Press downwards and backwards with the thumbs, and at the same time elevate the chin.