. A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . Fergussons dressing for lower part of arm. Physicks elbow splints. Angular pasteboard splints, felt, gutta percha, &c, or angular splintswith a hinge, such as Kirkbrides,2 Thomas Hewsons, Days, or Poses,or the more perfect and elegant angular splint of Welch. Fig. 65. Fig. Kirkbrides elbow splint. Days splint. Kirkbrides splint, which has been used in the Pennsylvania Hospi-tal in several instances, is composed of two pieces of board, connectedtogether by a circular joint, and having eyes on the inner edge, twoinches apart, and holes


. A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . Fergussons dressing for lower part of arm. Physicks elbow splints. Angular pasteboard splints, felt, gutta percha, &c, or angular splintswith a hinge, such as Kirkbrides,2 Thomas Hewsons, Days, or Poses,or the more perfect and elegant angular splint of Welch. Fig. 65. Fig. Kirkbrides elbow splint. Days splint. Kirkbrides splint, which has been used in the Pennsylvania Hospi-tal in several instances, is composed of two pieces of board, connectedtogether by a circular joint, and having eyes on the inner edge, twoinches apart, and holes through the splint at graduated distances be- 1 Elements of Surgery, by John Syng Dorsey, Philadelphia edition, vol. i. p. 145.* American Journal of the Medical Sciences, vol. xvi. p. 315. 250 FEACTURES OF THE HUMERUS. tween them. There is also a swivel eye, passing through the upperpart of the splint, and riveted below. A wire is fastened to theswivel, and bent at right angles at its other extremity, of a size to fit Fig. 67. Fig. 68.


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