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
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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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    / C 8 ] , / When a fradure happens to the leg, fo that both bones are broken, its in¬ ferior part becojmes pendulous and flexi¬ ble every way: notwithftanding which, the patient mufl: be removed to his own habitation, generally up one or more ftories ; or, if indigent, to the neareft hofpital. Nor was it pofllble, in any of the modes of conveyance before known, but that the inferior portion of the- fradured limb ihould be frequently and varioufly contorted 'and bent; and the parts, furrounding the bones, bruife'd, , pricked, . and irritated, by the extre-' mities of the fradured pieces. Hence muft arife pain, fwelling, inflammation, fuppuration, convullion, mortification; and even death itfelf, unlefs prevented' by a timely amputation of the leg. The fradure was at firfi:, perhaps, meerly fimple, the contufion fmall, and the teguments entire ^ if fo, the early application of the Condudor would have effedually prevented the whole train /
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