The American journal of the medical sciences (1827)
[Thorofare, N.J., etc.] Charles B. Slack [etc.] · leaf 369
Chapin, Apparatus for Fractures of the Leg. 1859.] 357 to the other, or while relaxing it for the relief of the other. Instead of the ring with a swivel attached to prevent twisting of the band, a hook may be preferable, which is most convenient for hitching a loop; and a nut applied to the screw… … The above figures represent the apparatus — in its several parts, and as applied to the limb. Fig. 1, 1, The long splint. It should extend from the crest of the ilium to six or seven inches below the foot. For a man of ordinary stature to be about four feet long. To be four or five inches wide at…
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