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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$E ^5 ] for that purpofe paffes over the joint above and below the fradture and, upon this principle, he recommends, inftead of the (hort fplints and fradture box, a machine of his own invention^, which muft be allowed to be far better calculated for the purpofe, but is by experience found to be as much inferior in point of eafe and utility to the long fplints, fince introduced by myfclf or others, as that was to the ihort fplints and fradlure box. . In order to what is called fetting the leg, or putting the fradlured extremities of the bones in exadt appofition, we are diredted by the late improved method “f*, in_the firft place, to bend the knee * Gooch’s Cafes in Surgery, vol. i.'plate ir. See firft edition of theCondudlor and containing Splints. The Splints of M. W. Sharp ; and M. Pott, on Fradfures, page i6, &c. * if ’Tis true that M. Petit, in his Tralte des Mala¬ dies dis Oj, tom I, De la Cure des Luxations^ orders, in general, the mufclcs to be relaxed before and during the extenfion of the limb, p. 51. And he repeats the fame in his Chap, fur les Fradtures, tom 2, page 30 ; but fays nothing about preferving the fractured leg in that pofture afterv/ards. The$