Identifier: 46031470RX2.nlm.nih.gov
Title: The first lines of the practice of surgery: designed as an introduction for students, and a concise book of reference for practitioners (Volume 2)
Year: 1822 (1820s)
Authors: Cooper, Samuel, 1780-1848 Stevens, Alexander H. (Alexander Hodgdon), 1789-1869
Subjects: Surgical Procedures, Operative
Publisher: New-York : James V. Seaman
Contributing Library: U.S. National Library of Medicine
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thigh has atendency to make them contract, the extension is more effec-tual, when applied, not to the thigh, but to the lower part of * See American Edition of Boyers Surgery, Translated by Stevens, vol. ii.p. 98. The nature of Boyers ingenious apparatus will be better understood by refer-ence to plate 18. fig. 1. a. a. a. The limb extended. b. b. b. The splint for making continued extension. c. c. The screw for lengthening the splint. d. The key, or handle for turning the screw. e. e. The moveable worm, or female-screw, through which the long screwpasses. It is furnished with plates, and calculated to slide upon the splint. /. The upper end of the splint received in the little pocket on the outside ofthe thigh-belt.g. The thigh-belt applied.k. h. h. h. The upper, or front splint, applied.i. i. i. i. i. Pads filled with wheat-chaff, or other soft materials.k. k. k. k. k. Tapes with which the whole apparatus is fastened./. The iron sole.*#. m. The supports of the iron sole. PlateXVHI.
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/.,/ :,-,/,,,/ r\ James V Srammi \-_^ \/^nlLJi)L^L. PARTICULAR FRACTURES. 431 the limb. 3. The apparatus must be made as little irksometo the patient as possible. 4. The patient should not have itin his power to interfere with the extension and reduction.5. The apparatus should admit of the employment of foment-ations or other applications. 1 believe a reference to plate 18, figs. 2, 3, and 4, will con-vey an adequate idea of Hagedonvs original and ingeniousapparatus for the treatment of a fracture of the neck of thethigh-bone. The invention appears to me both more simpleand more likely to answer every purpose, with less risk of fail-ure, and less inconvenience to the patient, than either the con-trivance of Boyer, or that of Desault. See plate 18, fig. 2. A view of the outside of Hagedornssplint, which for an adult is between three and four feet long,about five inches broad at its upper end, and becomes gradual-ly narrower down to its lower extremity, where it is not muchmore than tw

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