. A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . Amesburys splint. Fig. Amesburys splint applied. 406 FRACTURES OF THE FEMUR. backs rather than upon their sides, and laying the limbs flexed over adouble inclined plane. (Fig. 130.) To the support of this system ofPotts, thus modified, Sir Astley Cooper, C. Bell, John Bell, Earle,White, Sharp, and Amesbury (Figs. 131, 132), lent the influence oftheir great names, and its triumph, so far as the judgment of Britishsurgeons was concerned, soon became complete. In France, and upon the continent generally, the reception of thissystem was
. A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . Amesburys splint. Fig. Amesburys splint applied. 406 FRACTURES OF THE FEMUR. backs rather than upon their sides, and laying the limbs flexed over adouble inclined plane. (Fig. 130.) To the support of this system ofPotts, thus modified, Sir Astley Cooper, C. Bell, John Bell, Earle,White, Sharp, and Amesbury (Figs. 131, 132), lent the influence oftheir great names, and its triumph, so far as the judgment of Britishsurgeons was concerned, soon became complete. In France, and upon the continent generally, the reception of thissystem was more slow and reluctant; but Dupuytren now for oncetaking ground with his great rival, Sir Astley, adopted almost withoutqualification these novel views. The decision of Dupuytren deter-mined the opinions of a large portion of the continental surgeons;and had it not been for the early and decisive opposition of Desaultand Boyer (Fig. 133), the great surgeon of St. Bartholomew mighthave continued for a long time to have enjoyed a triumph upon thecontinent, and perhaps throughout
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