The uses of adhesive plaster in orthopaedic surgery / by A.B. Judson.
- Judson, Adoniram Brown, 1837-1916.
- Date:
- 1887
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The uses of adhesive plaster in orthopaedic surgery / by A.B. Judson. 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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![Reprinted from the New Yoric Medical Journal for June 4, 1887. 'Os' A v\ t] va\ 17 OCT )1 §1 \f . \*>, THE USES OF ADHESIVE PLASTER IN ORTHOPAEDIC SURGERY.* By A. B. JUDSON, M. D. The earliest record, so far as I am aware, of the use of adhesive plaster in orthopedic practice is found in the fifth edition, published in 1740, of Cheselden’s “Anatomy.” On pages 37 and 38 he writes as follows : “ The first knowl- edge I had of a cure of this disease (congenital club-foot) was from Mr. Presgrove, a professed bone-setter, then liv- ing in Westminster. I recommended the patient to him, not knowing how to cure him myself. His way was by holding the foot as near the natural posture as he could, and then rolling it up with straps of sticking-plaster, which he repeated from time to time as he saw occasion until the limb was restored to a natural position.” This method, improved by the application of a strip of adhesive plaster surrounding the foot and extending up the leg, was advo- cated at a “ clinique ” held in this city in 1850 by the late Dr. S. D. Gross, who was at that time Professor of Surgery in the University,) and also by Dr. J. N. Quimby in a nota- ble paper read before the Academy in 1807. J Plaster ap- * Read before the Section in Orthopaedic Surgery of the New York Academy of Medicine, March 18, 1887. f “ New York Medical Gazette,” December 21, 1850, p. 390. ) “Bulletin,” November 20, 1867, p. 264.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22364298_0005.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
