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Fractures, Bone

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Bones - Wounds and injuries

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  • Eleven decorated initials from the Basel 1555 edition of Andreas Vesalius's De humani corporis fabrica. Woodcuts, 1555.
  • Diagrams illustrating: bandaged legs in splints, bandaged upper bodies and bandaged heads and eyes. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1811, after J. Farey, the younger (?).
  • Diagrams illustrating: bandaged legs in splints, bandaged upper bodies and bandaged heads and eyes. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1811, after J. Farey, the younger (?).
  • First aid memory chart : designed for A.R.P. first aid workers & learners / by Harold E. Palmer, D. Litt. & W. Rougier Chapman, Surgeon Lieut. Commander R.N.V.R. ; approved by the St. John Ambulance Association.
  • Abnormal heads and skulls, fractured and bandaged clavicle and a broken (?) leg bandaged in a splint. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1811, after J. Farey, the younger.
  • Essays on several important subjects in surgery: chiefly on the nature and cure of fractures of the long bones of the extremities. Particularly those of the thigh and leg, whether simple of compound : for which a new method of retention is proposed. The whole illustrated with cooper-plates / [John Aitken].
  • Diagrams illustrating: bandaged legs in splints, bandaged upper bodies and bandaged heads and eyes. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1811, after J. Farey, the younger (?).
  • Abnormal heads and skulls, fractured and bandaged clavicle and a broken (?) leg bandaged in a splint. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1811, after J. Farey, the younger.
  • Instructions for rendering immediate aid : for troops at the front / drafted and designed by Major MacLure.
  • Two diagrams of legs in splints, illustrating how to set a fractured limb. Stipple engraving by D. Lizars after J. Bell.

Works from the collections

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    Medullary nailing of Küntscher / by Lorenz Böhler.

    Böhler, Lorenz, 1885-1973. | Date: 1948
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    The functional treatment of fractures. Part One.

    | Date: 1937
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    Cleft palate and adenoids. Treatment of simple fractures by operation. Diseases of joints. Operative treatment of Cancer. Acquired deformities. Antrectomy. Hernia, etc / W. Arbuthnot Lane.

    Lane, William Arbuthnot, 1856-1943. | Date: [1900]
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    Treatment of fractures of long bones by simple extension / by John Swinburne.

    Swinburne, John, 1820-1889. | Date: 1861
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    The treatment of fractures / Charles Locke Scudder ... Assisted by Frederic J. Cotton, M.D.

    Scudder, Charles L. (Charles Locke), 1860-1949. | Date: 1901
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Related topics

Joint Dislocations
Joint Dislocations
Fracture Fixation
Orthopedics
Surgery, Operative
First Aid
Wounds and Injuries
Liverpool
Liverpool Royal Infirmary
Massage

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