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.
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![[ 42 ] repeats and drenuoully urges the farrie precautions in the deligation, and col- location, of luxations; and adviies always to keep the limb in a middle pofition *. Whenever it is neceffiary to infpedt the injured part, the patient mud be placed again on the fame fide, and in the fame fituation, as at firft. Sufficient time having been given for the feparated parts in fome degree to cement and confolidate ; the fplints may be pulled downwards, the upper one a lefs way, . but the lower or outer one fo far as to project behind the heel : and both are to be thus faftened again upon the leg. After this, the patient may be per- mitted to lie on his back, only taking . care that his knee be dill fupported in the bended podure, by pillows pro- perly placed under it. The heel will . be fufficiently defended from all preffure by the now projected date of the outei fplint j and if the bed-cloths ihould at all incommode the foot by their weight, * Chirurgia univerfalis. Lib. 5, cap. 2 Sc 5. a iingle](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22393717_0028.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
