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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$even that may be eafily prevented, by the intervention of a little cotton^ wool, &c. « The Condudor fliould be kept upon the leg until the patient is placed in bed, bleeding, glyfter, &c. adminiHered, as £hall be thought neceflary; and the .apparatus provided for treating the frac¬ ture, as circumftances lhall require. And here is feen another very important ad-r vantage of this inftrument; for as it reftored the fradured bones to their na¬ tural polition, at its firll: application, all further extenlion is thereby rendered unnecelTary If the patient has a boot upon * In the Mem. de T Acad. Roy. de Chi. tom 2, M. la Faye has given a defcription, with plates, of two machines : the one for the more eafy portation and drefling of a fradure of the leg and thigh; the other to keep the leg extended in oblique and complicated fradures, by means of a pully and ftop- winch.—-Gn thefe I fhall make no remarks, but fubmit it to others, who lhall compare them with the Condudor, to determine as to the comparative merits of each, both as to fimplicity and ufefulnefs. There is /$