Specification of Henry Hides : surgical splints.

  • Hides, Henry.
Date:
1866
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Credit: Specification of Henry Hides : surgical splints. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Hides Improved Splint for Surgical Purposes. nation of materials which when applied to the limb are in a plastic state, so that they can readily be moulded to the required form, but will harden in about half an hour. Such being the nature and object of my said Invention for “ An Improved 5 Splint for Surgical Purposes,” I will proceed to describe the manner in which the same is to be or may be performed or carried into practical effect, which will be readily understood from the following explanation thereof. The material of which the splint is composed is felt, upon which is cemented a layer or lining of chamois leather. This material may be kept in sheets of 10 any convenient size, and may be easily cut to the proper form and dimen¬ sions when required for use. I may here remark that in some instances I find it preferable to use a lining of silk in place of chamois leather. When the splint is to be applied, after having cut the material to the required form, the felt side is to be saturated (by means of a brush or other wise), with the 15 hardening solution, wdiich is composed of the ingredients hereafter named, and in about the following proportions, namely, borax 6 grains, gum benz >in 2 scruples, and gum sandrac or juniper ounces dissolved in about one pint of methylated spirit. The splint being now in a plastic state is fitted to the limb with the leather side inwards, and being plastic it will readily adapt and 20 mould itself thereto. The bandages are then applied in the usual way, and in about half an hour (more or less, according to the temperature,) the splint will have become perfectly hard. Having now described the nature and object of my said Invention for “An Improved Sj lint for Surgical Purposes,” together with the manner in 25 which the same is to be or may be performed or carried into practical effect, I would remark in conclusion that I claim as my Invention the use for such purposes of a compound material consisting of chamois leather, or si k and felt cemented together in combination with the hardening solution, comi osed and applied substantially as above described. 30 In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Hides, have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Fourth day of May, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six. HENRY HIDES, (l.s.) LONDON: Printed by George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, Printers to the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty. 1806.