Description of an apparatus intended to facilitate the treatment of fractures of the lower extremity / by T.M. Greenhow.

  • Greenhow T. M. (Thomas Michael), 1791-1881.
Date:
1833
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Description of an apparatus intended to facilitate the treatment of fractures of the lower extremity / by T.M. Greenhow. 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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    fracture it seems likely to be a more convenient Apparatus than any other now in use. With regard to that for the Thigh, the alterations you have proposed to make will render it more perfect; and, if on trial, the whole is found to answer, and to make the extension and counter-extension in an easy and effective manner, a great desideratum will be supplied. Believe me, my dear Sir, Your’s, very truly, G. J. GUTHRIE. To T. M. Greenhow, Esq. London, 36, New Broad Street, July, 1833. My Dear Sir, Allow me to express to you how much I have been gratified by the inspection of your Apparatus for Compound Fractures, &c., which appears to me to accomplish the double purpose of fixing the limb, and allowing it to be dressed as often as may be required, without in the slightest degree disturbing it. As far as I can judge, without having witnessed its effects at the bed side of the patient, I should think, too, it must conduce to the ease no less than to the secu- rity of the limb; and that it will be found to lessen pain and prevent deformity. I am, very faithfully, your’s, SOUTHWOOD SMITH. To T. M. Greenhow, Esq. 14, Sav'dIc Row, July 2, 1833. My Dear Sir, I thank you for the opportunity which you have afforded me of inspecting the Apparatus which you have invented for the Treatment of Compound Fractures. The construction of it is at