The American journal of the medical sciences (1827)
[Thorofare, N.J., etc.] Charles B. Slack [etc.] · leaf 158
to the shape of the hip and limb throughout, which would retain the knee flexed at an angle of about 45°. This wire splint was so fashioned as to envelop the outer surface of the hip and limb, so that, when applied, it should cover slightly more than half the circumfer- ence of the leg, and,… … about the size of a No. 10 bougie, bent in the shape desired, and placed longitudinally, and supported by circular wires of the same size, placed transversely at a distance of from four to six inches from each other, and soldered firmly to the crossings of the longitudinal wires, while the latter,…
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