The conductor and containing splints; or, a description of two instruments, for the safer conveyance and more perfect cure of fractured legs: to which is now added, an account of two tourniquets upon a new construction / [Jonathan Wathen].

Wathen, Jonathan

Date:: 1781

Credit: The conductor and containing splints; or, a description of two instruments, for the safer conveyance and more perfect cure of fractured legs: to which is now added, an account of two tourniquets upon a new construction / [Jonathan Wathen]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$[ 7- ] 1. Of the Conductor. ( r ^HIS inftrument is defigned for the -I- fafe and eafy conveyance of a broken leg, from the place where the accident happened, till the patient is laid in bed; and is intended to ferve this purpofe not only in fimple, but likewife in all com¬ pound fractures whatfoever. The chief alterations made in the ftrudture of the Conductor, fince its firft publication, are in the ftiles and canulas. Thefe, inflead of being fquare, are now round ; by which new form^ the weight of it is reduced near two- thirds, without, any diminution of its ftrength. This is the only difference to be al¬ lowed for in the plates : from which, 1% every other refpeft,* a compleat idea tmay be formed of the Conductor now recommended. When$