Facts and observations in medicine and surgery : the gleanings of ten years of active general practice, and having particular reference to fractures and dislocations, gun-shot wound, calculus, insanity, epilepsy, hydrocephalus, the therapeutic application of galvanism, and fibrinous diarrhoea.

  • Grantham, John, 1800-1873.
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[1844]
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Credit: Facts and observations in medicine and surgery : the gleanings of ten years of active general practice, and having particular reference to fractures and dislocations, gun-shot wound, calculus, insanity, epilepsy, hydrocephalus, the therapeutic application of galvanism, and fibrinous diarrhoea. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Fig. 7. SPLINTS FOR THE LOWER EXTREMITIES. The first of these figures (Fig. 8) is intended to represent an apparatus for fractures of the os femoris, one of which I presented to Mr. Lawrence, in 1829, who gave the following description of it in his Lec- tures, as reported in the Lancet of 1829-30, page 317. He says, What I now shew you is a contrivance of this kind [speaking of double-inclined planes], to which a strap or band, calculated to fix the pelvis, is