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Title: The American practice condensed, or The family physician : being the scientific system of medicine ...
Year: 1848 (1840s)
Authors: Beach, W. (Wooster), 1794-1868 Beach, W. (Wooster), 1794-1868. American practice of medicine
Subjects: Medicine Therapeutics Materia Medica
Publisher: New York : Published and for sale by James M'Alister
Contributing Library: U.S. National Library of Medicine
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ady made. A crooked limb of a tree is an excellent article.for making this apparatus in the most simple, cheap, and secure manner ; orone may be made of tin, or binders pasteboard. While the principle of theappartus is kept in view, it is of little consequence of what material it ismade, or what the peculiar construction may be, provided the right indica-tion be fulfilled. Mode of Application.—-Having ascertained that the thigh-bone is fracturedin any part of it, no matter whether transversely or obliquely, it must be re-duced the same as a simple fracture, by a little extension and counter-exten-sion ; and sometimes none at all is necessary. Let a bandage or roller bepassed round, beginning just above the knee, and continuing it upward tothe groin. Let a splint, properly covered with linen or muslin, be placed onthe anterior part of the thigh, the length of the bandage ; and one also alittle below, on each side of it, leaving sufficient room for the apparatus. FRACTURES 49? SO ^3 5
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S 498 THE REFORMED PRACTICE OF SURGERY. then let the roller oe continued over the splints, the same as in other frac-tures ; afterward let the whole leg be carefully placed in this apparatus.Narrow strips arc next to be. tied round the whole, above and below thekuee, in order properly to secure it. An easy bed is now formed for thelimb ; and such is the convenience and adaptation of the contrivance to theleg, that the patient almost forgets that he has met with the accident. Hecan change bis position, and the position of the leg, without tbe least dangerof displacing the broken bones ; he can be moved to any place, if necessary,without injury or inconvenience ; and can sit up in the bed or on a chair,take medicine, or safely submit to considerable motion. Tbe limb reposesin its concavity with perfect ease and support; and I have found this frac-ture apparatus to be remarkably successful in every instance : the bonesspeedily unite ; there is no deformity attending the accident ; and I

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