Specification of Samuel Stacy Skipton : splint for fractured limbs.

  • Skipton, Samuel Stacy.
Date:
1861
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Credit: Specification of Samuel Stacy Skipton : splint for fractured limbs. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Splint for Fractured Limbs. LETTERS PATENT to Samuel Stacy Skipton, Doctor of Medicine, and Assistant Surgeon in Her Majesty’s 78th Highland Regiment of Foot, for the Invention of “ An Improved Splint for Gun-shot and other Compound Fractures of the Limbs.” Sealed the 25th January 1861, and dated the 3rd August I860. PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Samuel Stacy Skipton at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 3rd August 1860. I, Samuel Stacy Skipton, Doctor of Medicine, and Assistant Surgeon in 5 Her Majesty’s 78th Highland Regiment of Foot, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for “ An Improved Splint for Gun-shot and other Compound Fractures of the Limbs,” to be as follows:— This Invention consists in the manufacture of splints well adapted to gun¬ shot or other compound fractures of the limbs. By the principle hereafter 10 described the wound in the limb may be left uncovered for the purpose of applying the requisite dressings without removing the splint. The principle consists in the splint being made up of transverse strips, retained in their place by longitudinal bars at the back thereof, and may be formed of any suitable shape, size, or material. Any one or more of these transverse strips are 15 removable, in order that the splint may be applied to the limb, at the same time leaving the wound exposed. For the sake of economy and portability,