Illustrations of some of the injuries to which the lower limbs are exposed / by Charles Brandon Trye.
- Date:
- 1802
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Illustrations of some of the injuries to which the lower limbs are exposed / by Charles Brandon Trye. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
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![[ *6 ] Comparifon of the luxa- tion of the thigh with that of the humerus. and my hands and knee being applied in the manner already deferibed, I directed the affiftant, who fupported the bent leg, fuddenly to carry the internal ankle towards the other leg, and to twill the toes outwards, and then the head flipped into the acetabulum. The day on which the accident took place, there was uncommon rigidity and hardnefs of the mulcles ; hut after the operation of the fudorific and the bath, the tenfion and refiflancc were greatly diminifhed. I believe that the fu tie ring parts in the diflocation of the thigh recover themfelves much fooner after a reduction has been effected, than the parts about the fhoulder do, when that joint has undergone the fame violence. The thigh, when diflocated, has an advantage over the diflocated humerus, in as much as it is far more difficult to make a fixed point of the fcapula, than of the pelvis. In pulling the arm the fcapula is always dragged forwards with it, which mull be a great mechanical difad vantage to the fursreon, and renders the direction of his force lefs certain. Of all the methods which I know of reducing the diflo- cated humerus, that, which I am going to deferibe, gives the furgeon the greateft opportunities of applying his powers with mechanical advantage ; and I think it wdll rarely fail, if the diflocated head of the bone be in or near the axilla. The patient mull be feated on the ground, and properly fixed by a lheet furrounding his body, and fattened to fome poll or other fixture, or firmly held by afliltants. The operator then places a flattifh ball or pad in the axilla, and over that a towel, which he tics over one of his own fhoulders, the length of the towel being fo diminifhed that he mull Hoop confiderably in order that it may include in the loop both the ball in the axilla and the furgeon s fliouldcr,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21913183_0040.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
