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Fractures

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  • Eleven decorated initials from the Basel 1555 edition of Andreas Vesalius's De humani corporis fabrica. Woodcuts, 1555.
  • Diagrams illustrating: bandaged legs in splints, bandaged upper bodies and bandaged heads and eyes. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1811, after J. Farey, the younger (?).
  • Chinese woodcut: Fixation appliance for injured kneecap
  • SEM of fracture through new bone
  • Diagrams illustrating: bandaged legs in splints, bandaged upper bodies and bandaged heads and eyes. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1811, after J. Farey, the younger (?).
  • Abnormal heads and skulls, fractured and bandaged clavicle and a broken (?) leg bandaged in a splint. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1811, after J. Farey, the younger.
  • Essays on several important subjects in surgery: chiefly on the nature and cure of fractures of the long bones of the extremities. Particularly those of the thigh and leg, whether simple of compound : for which a new method of retention is proposed. The whole illustrated with cooper-plates / [John Aitken].
  • Diagrams illustrating: bandaged legs in splints, bandaged upper bodies and bandaged heads and eyes. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1811, after J. Farey, the younger (?).
  • Abnormal heads and skulls, fractured and bandaged clavicle and a broken (?) leg bandaged in a splint. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1811, after J. Farey, the younger.
  • Chinese woodcut: Bone-setting devices
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Catalogue

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    The functional treatment of fractures. Part One.

    | Date: 1937
  • view The treatment of fractures / Charles Locke Scudder ... Assisted by Frederic J. Cotton, M.D.
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    The treatment of fractures / Charles Locke Scudder ... Assisted by Frederic J. Cotton, M.D.

    Scudder, Charles L. (Charles Locke), 1860-1949 | Date: 1901
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    Outline of fractures : including joint injuries / by John Crawford Adams.

    Adams, John Crawford | Date: 1972
  • view Outlines of the lectures on surgery / delivered by Sir Astley Cooper, bart at St. Thomas's and Guy's Hospitals.
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    Outlines of the lectures on surgery / delivered by Sir Astley Cooper, bart at St. Thomas's and Guy's Hospitals.

    Cooper, Astley, Sir, 1768-1841 | Date: 1822
  • view A treatise on fractures in the vicinity of the joints, and on certain forms of accidental and congenital dislocations.
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    A treatise on fractures in the vicinity of the joints, and on certain forms of accidental and congenital dislocations.

    Smith, Robert William. | Date: 1850
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