A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . Wire rack for fracture of lea Fie. Malgaigne8 apparatus for oblique fractures of the leg. (From Malgaigne.) any better, nor, indeed, that Laugiers plan of cutting the tendoAchillis possesses in this respect any real advantage, concludes at 1 Barton, Amer. Journ. of Med. Sci., vol. xvi. p. 31, and vol. xix. p. 515. 31 474 FRACTURES OF THE TIBIA AND FIBULA. last to resort to a new and really ingenious method, the value ofwhich, also, he claims to have already fully demonstrated. His appa-ratus consists simply of a steel band of sufficien


A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . Wire rack for fracture of lea Fie. Malgaigne8 apparatus for oblique fractures of the leg. (From Malgaigne.) any better, nor, indeed, that Laugiers plan of cutting the tendoAchillis possesses in this respect any real advantage, concludes at 1 Barton, Amer. Journ. of Med. Sci., vol. xvi. p. 31, and vol. xix. p. 515. 31 474 FRACTURES OF THE TIBIA AND FIBULA. last to resort to a new and really ingenious method, the value ofwhich, also, he claims to have already fully demonstrated. His appa-ratus consists simply of a steel band of sufficient size to encircle three-fourths of the limb, at the two extremities of which are two horizontalmortises through which a band is passed, and which may be buckledupon itself behind. The centre of the metallic arch, in front, ispenetrated with a firm metallic screw, terminating in a very sharppoint, and which is moved by a flat thumb-piece. The limb being laid over a double-inclined plane, and the padsbeing carefully adjusted, as we have already directed when speakingof other forms of appar


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