A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . befound essential to the best success. I have recently seen in use at the Long IslandCollege Hospital a very ingenious apparatus devisedby Dr. J. H. Hobart Burge, one of the surgeons ofthat hospital. The fragments being approximatedby well-adjusted sole-leather pads, which are operated upon by weights, cords, and Lausdale, U. S. N., has contrived an apparatussimilar to that invented by Burge, but more Gibson, of St. Louis, has introduced, in a modi-fied form, the circular pad or ring, first devised Dr. Eve, o
A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . befound essential to the best success. I have recently seen in use at the Long IslandCollege Hospital a very ingenious apparatus devisedby Dr. J. H. Hobart Burge, one of the surgeons ofthat hospital. The fragments being approximatedby well-adjusted sole-leather pads, which are operated upon by weights, cords, and Lausdale, U. S. N., has contrived an apparatussimilar to that invented by Burge, but more Gibson, of St. Louis, has introduced, in a modi-fied form, the circular pad or ring, first devised Dr. Eve, of Nashville, and Dr. Black-man, of Cincinnati, have employed this method, andspeak of it in terms of high I can-not think, however, that it will be found applicableto any large number of cases, and especially to suchcases as are attended with much contusion and swell-ing of the soft parts. In case the fracture is oblique or longitudinal, it will only be neces-sary to lay the limb in a straight position, so as to prevent that lateral. Malgaignes hooks. Fia;. 197.
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