Two diagrams of legs in splints, illustrating how to set a fractured limb. Stipple engraving by D. Lizars after J. Bell.

1 print : stipple engraving ; platemark 10 x 16 cm

In this marginal plate I have represented the three stages of this important process of the setting a fractured limb. ... J. Bell delt. ; D. Lizars sculpt. Lettering continues: "In figure 1. is seen the manners of applying the first roller, to moderate the efflux of callus; in figure 2. is seen the manner of applying compresses of linen over the first and firmest roller; and in figure 3. is seen the manner of applying the splints on the outside of all the rest of the apparatus. Pott represents the process, even in our own times, as so tiresome, "that the labour of rolling a limb is among his objections to the practices." Vide page 401. The 1st figure of this plate is omitted as superfluous."

On the same mount is a print by the same artist of bleeding arteries

Wellcome Collection 23137i