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Splints

Medical restraint to keep body part in place

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Images referencing Splints

4 images from works
  • A Victorian child's shoe and leg caliper in leather and steel
  • A Victorian child's shoe and leg caliper in leather and steel
  • A Victorian child's shoe and leg caliper in leather and steel
  • A Victorian child's shoe and leg caliper in leather and steel

Works from the collections

68 works

    • Ephemera

    Fractured thigh : Mitchell's cigarettes / Stephen Mitchell & Son.

    | Date: [1938]
    • Books
    • Online

    Description of a splint, (with plates and cases) : invented for the treatment of fractured limbs / by James M'Intyre.

    | M'Intyre, James. | Date: [1825]
    • Archives and manuscripts
    • Online

    M0019190: Illustration of Thomas's splint drill

    | Date: September 1962 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/170/95
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
    • Books
    • Online

    A contribution to the treatment of white swelling of the knee : read before the American Orthopedic Association, St. Louis, Mo., September, 1893 / by A.B. Judson.

    | Adoniram Brown Judson | Date: 1893
    • Books
    • Online

    The American hip-splint = Éclisse américaine du fémur = Die Amerikanische Hüftschiene / by A.B. Judson.

    | Adoniram Brown Judson | Date: [1888]
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Related topics

Great Britain
Fractures, Bone
Bandages
Support
Disabilities
Knee
Orthopedics
Military Medicine
First Aid

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