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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