An account of a new method of treating fractured legs. Read before the Royal Society of London, on February 12, 1767. To which is prefixed a letter on that subject to James Parsons. M.D., a member of that respectable society, dated November 6, 1766 / [William Sharp].

  • Sharp, William, M.D.
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[1767]
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Credit: An account of a new method of treating fractured legs. Read before the Royal Society of London, on February 12, 1767. To which is prefixed a letter on that subject to James Parsons. M.D., a member of that respectable society, dated November 6, 1766 / [William Sharp]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Description of a new-construct¬ ed INSTRUMENT for Fractured Legs, recommended to be ufed injlead of the common Apparatus. See the Plate* r H E Figures are drawn on a Scale of JL three Inches to a Foot, and repre- fent two Splints of ftrong Pafteboard made with Glue, to be fattened upon a fradlured Leg, by three Straps which furround the whole, Thefe are adapted to the Leg of a mid- dle-fized Man : neverthelefs it may be convenient to have two other Sizes; the one almoft twenty^two Inches in Length, and the other fixteen. Fig, L A reprefents an under Splint of an irregular Form, fuitable to that Part of the Leg it is intended to cover; it is a little con¬ vex externally and concave internally. The Length eighteen Inches from (a) to (b),