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
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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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![[ -22 ] / repeats and ftrenuoufly urges the fame precautions in the deligation, and col¬ location, of luxations 5 and advifes always to keep the limb in a middle pofition Whenever it is neceflary to infpedt ,the injured part, ’ the patient muft be .placed again on the fame fide, and in the fame fituation, as at firft. Sufficient time having been given for the feparated parts in fome degree to. cement and confolidate ; the fplints may be pulled downwards, the upper one a lefs way, but the lower or outer one fo far as to projedt behind the heel : and both are to be thus fafiened again upon the leg. After this, the patient may be per¬ mitted to lie on his back, only taking care that his knee be fiiill fupported in the bended pofture, by pillows pro¬ perly placed under it. The heel will be fufficiently defended from all prefiure by the no'w projeded ftate of the outer fplint; and if the bed-cloths fiaould at all incommode the foot by their weight, * Chinirgia univerfaUs, Lib. 5, cap. 2^5. a fingle](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31934237_0026.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
