Specification of Samuel Stacy Skipton : splint for fractured limbs.

  • Skipton, Samuel Stacy.
Date:
1861
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Specification of Samuel Stacy Skipton : splint for fractured limbs. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Skipton s Improved Splint for Fractured Limbs. limbs, whereby the wound may be left exposed for the application of the necessary dressings while the splint remains bound on the limb, consisting of transverse strips, which, placed side by side, form the shape of the required splint, and which transverse strips slide on one or more longitudinal bars at their back to retain them in their places, the terminal strips being fixed by 5 rivets or screws to each longitudinal bar, the material being metal, or wood and metal, or any suitable material adapted for the purpose, to be made in the manner shewn in the accompanying Drawings for the purposes herein described and set forth. In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Stacy Skipton, have hereunto set 10 my hand and seal, this Twenty-fourth day of January, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one. SAMUEL STACY SKIPTON, M.D., (l.s.) Assistant Surgeon, 78th Highlanders, Edinburgh Castle. 15 Witness, Richard Pierce Butler, Lieutenant 78th Highlanders, Edinburgh Castle. LONDON: Printed by George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, Printers to the Queen's most Excellent Majesty. 1861.