On the treatment of fractures of the limbs.

  • Gamgee, Sampson, 1828-1886.
Date:
1871
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: On the treatment of fractures of the limbs. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    pasteboard splints fixed to the front and back of the thigh, until the 12th, when the apparatus was cut up in the middle line in front, and re-closed on finding parts in excellent condition. An additional pasteboard splint fitted on the inner side to below the knee. Boy perfectly free from pain, even when the limb, raised fr'om the bed by the foot, is allowed to drop suddenly. Able to turn round and sit up with perfect ease. The 16th October, eight days after admission, I exhibited the boy at the Midland Medical Society. He was discharged next day, and made a perfect recovery, without the slightest shortening. Case V.—Fracture of tihia with inversion.—Immo- bilisation,—Out of bed the third day.—Perfect reco- very. Mary Birch, a3t. 9 years, admitted A Y Ward October 12th, having broken right leg in falling down stairs. Eracture slightly oblique, through the tibia, in the small of the leg. No shortening, but decided inversion of the foot. Starched apparatus applied, to the middle of the thigh. After which, dry pasteboard splint fixed along the outer side. October 15th. Apparatus opened in fr-ont, and re-adjusted on finding parts in excellent condition.