The American journal of the medical sciences (1827)
[Thorofare, N.J., etc.] Charles B. Slack [etc.] · leaf 444
e, and maintain at the same time a constant power of extension in a direct line with the long axis of the limb. In the year 1869, recognizing the importance of securing both suspen- sion and extension, I devised, and had constructed during the winter of 1872, what I have termed the… … The accompanying figure represents this splint. The horizontal bar cc is made § in. thick, 1J in. broad, by 3 ft. in length, is joined to a foot- board d, of like thickness, 3^ inches at widest part, above 3 inches at heel, by 13| inches in length, being somewhat shaped like the bottom of a last on…
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