...patients are seldom willing to undergo complete confinement to bed for two or three weeks becaiise of a simple fracture of the clavicle. The usual treatment...another strip of adhesive plaster is split to allow the olecranoii process to slip through it, and then, the arm held upon the side, the strip of adhesive...

...leaving the bone a little shorter. The extension apparatus which I apply in this case is made by taking a strip of adhesive plaster two and a half inches in width, and long enough to extend from the outer to the inner side of the knee, making a loop below the sole...

...Velpeau position, a good-sized pad of lint is next applied over the scapula, and this is held in place by a strip of adhesive plaster two and a half inches in width and one and a half yards in length ; this FIo. 260. Velpeau dressing fur fracture of the clavicie....