The American journal of the medical sciences (1827)
[Thorofare, N.J., etc.] Charles B. Slack [etc.] · leaf 130
of the roller. To apply the splint, the jaws are buckled to the tabs upon the thigh ; the strap which encircles the lower third of the thigh is also secured, and the splint shortened by the aid of the screws to its extreme limit. The iron and tin supports of the pad are then accurately moulded to… … The long hip-splint may be used with an adapta- tion to the plaster jacket of precisely the same character. My friend, Dr. John E. Owens, Surgeon of St. Luke's Hospital of Chicago, has recently employed this device successfully in the case of a patient where he had excised the head of the femur,…
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