Contributions to orthopedic surgery / by Robert Jones and John Ridlon.

  • Jones, Robert, 1857-1933.
Date:
[between 1890 and 1899?]
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Credit: Contributions to orthopedic surgery / by Robert Jones and John Ridlon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    being expected to furnish ample protection to the joint from the traumatism of locomotion. These principles of an ambulatory apparatus, which permitted motion at the joint and protected it by elastic traction and counter-traction, were at once adopted by Dr. Lewis A. Say re, Dr. Charles Fayette Taylor, and others, and the Fig. 110.—The Shaffer hip-splint. Fig. 111.—The Ridlon long traction hip-splint. treatment, which was believed to allow motion with- out friction became known as the American method of treatment. It is, perhaps, unnecessary to say that the principles upon which this treatment was based have been entirely abandoned by the profession. Traction obtained by a