State of New York, Supreme Court : in the Supreme Court, James L. Van Ingen against Joshua Bennett.

Date:
[1855?]
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Credit: State of New York, Supreme Court : in the Supreme Court, James L. Van Ingen against Joshua Bennett. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    filaint of the bandages or splints hurting him ; the Dr. eft some medicine in vials for the patient to take to quiet his nerves. Cross-examined.—Mr. Rynex, gate-keeper, was present; he piloted the Dr. and myself there ; another man named Houghtailing, living at the foot of the hill, went up with us ; Mr. Bennett's brother-in-law was also present; when we got there, ;fchere were no men in the house that I saw. [Repeated the particulars about the bed.] The bedstead stood in the room where he lay; the posts run up pretty well; run not as high as I have seen; he was laid on the bed upon his back before tlie examination of the limb was made; when directed by the Dr. I placed my hand on his leg on the outside, the fingers passing under the knee, and the thumb against the side of the knee-joint; when the leg was moved, I could feel and hear the bones grate; could detect the locality of the fracture best by my thumb ; could not feel it with my fingers as much as with my thumb ; when the leg was moved I could feel the bones just above the joint move ; I used my right hand; placed it on the outside of the leg ; my thumb was against the side of the leg under the cap, and the fingers under the knee ; myself, with the others present, assisted when we were needed, in at- tending to the limb; some two hours were spent in this work; I did not hold my hand on the limb as explained, more than once ; think it was with the right hand that I felt it; I stepped back after feeling of it, to allow others to do so; I stood near when the Dr. set the leg; all were helping more or less ; he set the up- per fracture first, then, while the leg was held, pro- ceeded to reduce the other; he placed a bandage around the leg and held it tight, while the lower one was set, when he continued the same bandage lower down on the leg; did not say that I held the leg while the lower frac- ture was being set; did not smoke a pipe or cigar while the operation was going on ; am sure of this, as I never smoke ; do not recollect of Dr. Van Ingen's mentioning that any bones were out of joint; I felt the bones bro- ken ; two and perhaps three bricks were under the foot posts; the cross piece was nailed about a foot above the rail of the bedstead ; think the space was six inches from the bottom of the cross piece to the top of the tick; I went to Mr. Bennett's because invited by Dr. Van Ingen to do so; I was lame, had broken my ancle some
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