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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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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    / ! w C I 3 I INTRODUCTION. f SOA^E years ago, I' publiflied a defcription of two machines; dno for carrying, another for the more eafy cure, of a fradlured leg. The 'acknowledged utility of both thefe inventions has induced me to pay a further clofe attention to their ftruc- ture ^ which has led to the difcovery'of very confiderable improvements in each of them.^ For this reafon, I have nov/ printed a third edition of that little tradt, with a particular account of the improvement's made in the machines of which it treats. To this is added, the reprefentation of two new invented Tourniquets; conftrudled in fuch a man¬ ner, as to be eafy of application,’and capable of being inftantly flackened, tightened, or removed, at pleafure. B In