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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    Il [ 20 ] fide of the body* The advantages de¬ rived from the inflexion of the knee in fetting, and efpecially during the earlier . period of the cure, have been noticed, V and that pofture recommended by fe- veral practitioners of late years It is however a little furprizing, that a prac¬ tice of fo much utility ikould have been fo long neglected ; though it had been enforced and recommended by the moft celebrated furgeons of the laft century. Fabricius Ilildanus fays, that in fractures of the leg many furgeons are guilty of great error, by placing ‘‘ it fo, that the weight of the limb refts upon the heel, which occafions more fuffering in that part, than in the* fracture itfelf, by means of the large tendons inferred into it. Sur- geons, therefore, fliould not' be fo “ folicitous to preferve the limb in a polture, fo injurious to the patient; but, on the contrary, the leg, as well I * This was noticed in the firft edition of this tract : by M. W. Sharp, in his account of a new method of treating fra'Clured legs—by M. Pott, and others, on fraClures, as