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 ... / by Jonathan Wathen.
- Wathen, Jonathan, 1729-1808.
- 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 ... / by Jonathan Wathen. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![When a fraCture happens to the leg, fo that both bones are broken, its in- ferior part becomes pendulous and flexi- ble every way: notwithftanding which, the patient mull be removed to his own habitation, generally up one or more Tories ; or, if indigent, to the nearefl: hofpital. Nor was it poflible, in any of the modes of conveyance before known, but that the inferior portion of the fradtured limb fhould be frequently and varioufly contorted and bent; and the parts, furrounding the bones, bruifed, pricked, and irritated, by the extre- mities of the fradtured pieces. Hence muft arife pain, fwelling, inflammation, fuppuration, convuliion, mortification; and even death itfelf, unlefs prevented by a timely amputation of the leg. The fradture was at firfl, perhaps, meerly Ample, the contufion final], and the teguments entire; if fo, the early application of the Conductor would have effectually prevented the whole train * I](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22393717_0014.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
