A Case of Compound Fracture of the Humerus Treated by a Simple Method

arm, together with the forearm, was now brought down straight alongside the body and fixed in an immovable position to the body by a manytailed bandage. As a result of this the union was perfectly satisfactory in spite of the daily removal of the splint and bandages for dressing the wound. The patient was admitted on the 16th January, 192(5, and the wound had healed within twenty-one days of admission. He was kept in hospital for a further six days and then discharged at the request of his mother, with the arm still in splints. Noteworthy points about the case are (1) the healing of so septic a wound without complications, although exposed to gross contamination. (2) The complete immobilisation obtained by the simple procedure of bandaging the limb to the side, with no elaborate appliances needed. The side splints used were made from an ordinary packing case, as the official splints supplied by the Government Medical Store Depot are of uniform breadth and did not suit the case as their breadth remains uniform and does not decrease towards one end in proportion to their