A syllabus of surgical lectures on the nature and treatment of fractures, diseases of the joints, and deformities of the limbs and spine. Containing descriptions of the modes of applying twelve new apparatuses, illustrated by twelve plates ... / [Joseph Amesbury].

  • Amesbury, Joseph, 1795-1864
Date:
1827
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Credit: A syllabus of surgical lectures on the nature and treatment of fractures, diseases of the joints, and deformities of the limbs and spine. Containing descriptions of the modes of applying twelve new apparatuses, illustrated by twelve plates ... / [Joseph Amesbury]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The lateral splints are next to be applied. The longer of these, g, should be placed along the outer side of the leg, and should be long enough to reach from the foot-board to the upper part of the outer condyle of the femur; the inner, h, from the foot-board to the inner condyle. The lower ends of these two splints should be fas¬ tened to the foot-board with narrow tape or riband; and the upper ends kept close to the leg by the circular strap, i, passed round the limb over the splints and the apparatus. The limb thus fixed should be placed with the apparatus resting upon the heel. In*this state sedative lotions may be applied to the leg; and if it should be necessary to apply leeches, the surgeon has only to unbuckle the circular strap, i, and throw the side splints back, in order to have the whole of the leg exposed for this pur¬ pose, which might be done without any danger of disturbing the fractured parts. When the inflammation is sufficiently got under, which is usually in the course of three or four days, vary¬ ing according to the severity of the injury, the treatment requires to be altered. Application of the author’s appamtus, as for simple transverse fractures of the leg, when the inflammatory action has subsided. —See Plate IV. Some strips of soap piaster are now to be applied