An account of a new method of treating fractured legs. Read before the Royal Society of London, on February 12, 1767. To which is prefixed a letter on that subject to James Parsons. M.D., a member of that respectable society, dated November 6, 1766 / [William Sharp].

  • Sharp, William, M.D.
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[1767]
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Credit: An account of a new method of treating fractured legs. Read before the Royal Society of London, on February 12, 1767. To which is prefixed a letter on that subject to James Parsons. M.D., a member of that respectable society, dated November 6, 1766 / [William Sharp]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the Size of the Leg. Each of fchefe Slips (being two Inches broad) is fo laid as to cover Half the Breadth of that which is underneath it (viz. one Inch,) Another Slip, ten or twelve Inches long, is fewed on the Back, fo as to unite them all in the t Middle, making a Bandage equally as firm as a circular one, and which mav be ufed «r without diflurbing the Leg. The nar¬ rowed: Part muft be placed neared: to the Heel. As the Number of Slips is to be increafed or leflened, according to the Space neceflary to be inclofed within them, I call this a many-tailed Bandage, leaving the precifeNumber to be determined accord¬ ing to the Nature of the Circumftances. This has been ufed many Years in St. Bartholomew’s Hofpital, inftead of the old eighteen-headed Bandage : Neverthe® lefs, as it is not generally known, I hope this Defcription will not be thought fuper- fluous. The three different Sizes of Splints above-mentioned will generally be Sufficient; at