. The medical age : a semi-monthly journal of medicine and surgery . Fig. 3. hooks, pulleys and a stout cord, to a hook inthe ceiling, or to a framework attached toand over the bed (Fig. 4). The splint shouldbe constructed from the stoutest steel wire,three-sixteenths of an inch in diameter, and 260 THE MEDICAL AGE. braced at least at three points in its length—once near the knee, once at the groin, and onceat the ankle; the hooks to suspend it are also. Fig. 4. made of steel and wire (Figs 5 and 6), em-bodying a stout spring to prevent slipping;one of these hooks is hooked behind the A

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