Excerpt from The American Practitioner, 1871, Vol. 4: A Monthly Journal of Medicine and Surgery By referring to any of our standard authors on surgery the reader will soon be convinced that to retain in position a fractured clavicle is a most difficult thing to accomplish; and that for this purpose a greater variety Of apparatus has been invented, and plans of dressings and bandages suggested, than for the treatment of any other fracture in the body, unless it may possibly be that Of the lower jaw. Some years since a physician in the western part of this state (whose name I have unfortunately forgotten) suggested to me the propriety of dressing this fracture with an axillary pad and strips of adhesive plaster only. One to go around the middle of the arm and pulling it backward, should pass around the body, and thus retain it; while another strip. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.