The American journal of the medical sciences (1827)
[Thorofare, N.J., etc.] Charles B. Slack [etc.] · leaf 318
In three weeks from the first operation he went home, a distance of forty miles, riding about half the distance in a buggy. The splint was worn about ten weeks. Perhaps it might have been laid aside sooner, but the patient, after his three years' experience, was afraid to trust his limb too soon.… … The above figures, engraved from photographs, represent the appearances of the limb, before treat- ment, Fig. 5 ; after treatment, Fig. 6. The result in this case should lead us never to despair of success until after trials of means of cure. As the fracture of the tibia was transverse
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