A treatise on the medical and surgical diseases of women, with their homopathic treatment .. . is dilemma I took her husband to my office, andshowed him pictures of the more approved fracture-bedsand swings, and directed him to make some sort of apparatusto swing her from the bed. He had been trained in the bestof all schools of invention—a farm—and was at the head ofa manufacturing establishment, where his training was mademore complete. I knew that his ingenuity, stimulated bythe desperate necessities of the case, would devise someuseful apparatus, but I wasas much surprised as de-lighted to
A treatise on the medical and surgical diseases of women, with their homopathic treatment .. . is dilemma I took her husband to my office, andshowed him pictures of the more approved fracture-bedsand swings, and directed him to make some sort of apparatusto swing her from the bed. He had been trained in the bestof all schools of invention—a farm—and was at the head ofa manufacturing establishment, where his training was mademore complete. I knew that his ingenuity, stimulated bythe desperate necessities of the case, would devise someuseful apparatus, but I wasas much surprised as de-lighted to find, after a fewhours, the admirable contri-vance which I have shownin the rude cut. The inventor and builderhad carried home some hick-ory stuff from a factorywhere buggy - felloes aresteamed and bent. Ofstraight pieces he selectedfour, slightly knotty, and,therefore, unfit for took home, also, fourfelloes—two large ones and two small ones—which were un-salable on account of a slight tendency to splinter. Thelumber, as specified, cost fifteen cents. He laid two of the. Fig. No 29.—Bed Swing. 340 EATON ON DISEASES OF WOMEN. i straight pieces, A, B, on the bed, near and parallel to itsedges. At the head and foot of the bed he set up the largerfelloes, A, C, A and B, D, B, and bolted them to the side-pieces at A, A, B, B, as shown. Then he laid two otherstraight pieces, E, F, on the bed parallel to the first pair,but closer to the patients sides, and these he bolted to theends of the two smaller felloes, E, G, E and F, H, F. Onthe highest point of the arch formed by each large felloe hebolted blocks, C and D, perforated for a long Avindlass, C, D,two inches in diameter. Hopes were attached to this wind-lass, and connected to the straight pieces lying close to thepatient. The carpentry being thus finished, some strips ofstrong muslin were doubled and slipped under the patient—one under her head, one under her shoulders, another underher hips, and a wide on
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