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appropriate hole at the other end of the bar. The wing-nut is applied and the procedure
is complete. The patient is now fixed in a rigid apparatus with the lower
extremities widely abducted and the fractured limb inverted (see figs. 2 and 3).
As the feet project beyond the edges of the bed, I have found it an advantage to rest
the bar on a broad board with holes cut in it to receive the projecting wing-nuts.
fig. 4.—showino fracture of neck of femur
in woman aged 74 years.
fig. 5.—same fracture after application of
abduction bar without anæthetic.
fig. 6.-intertrochanteric fracture of
femur in woman aged 60 years.
fig. 7.—same fracture after application of
abduction bar and extension under loca1
anæthetic.