A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . of the pulleys, while the direction of the forcecan be varied with much greater ease. The most serious objectionsto the instrument as employed for the reduction of dislocations, are itscomplexity and its expensiveness. Mr. Fergusson says that the Lancet for July 26, 1845, contains adescription of a similar apparatus constructed by Coxeter at thesuggestion of Gr. N. Bpps;3 and LBstrange, of Dublin, has inventeda windlass for making extension, with a forceps by which theextending power can be instantly Mr. Bloxhams dis- 1 Gilbert,
A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . of the pulleys, while the direction of the forcecan be varied with much greater ease. The most serious objectionsto the instrument as employed for the reduction of dislocations, are itscomplexity and its expensiveness. Mr. Fergusson says that the Lancet for July 26, 1845, contains adescription of a similar apparatus constructed by Coxeter at thesuggestion of Gr. N. Bpps;3 and LBstrange, of Dublin, has inventeda windlass for making extension, with a forceps by which theextending power can be instantly Mr. Bloxhams dis- 1 Gilbert, of Philadelphia, note to Pirries Surg.; also Amer. Journ. Med. Sci.,vol. xxxv., April, 1845. 2 Crandall, Bost. Med. and Surg. Journ., vol. xxxix. p. 77; Atlee, Trans. Assoc, vol. hi., 1850, p. 357. 3 Fergusson, 4th Amer. ed., p. 200. 4 Ibid., p. 198. UPWARDS AND BACKWARDS ON THE DORSUM ILII. 651 location tourniquet is also very simple, and Mr. Erichsen affirms thatby it any amount of extending force that may be required can be Fia\ Jarviss adjuster applied for reduction of a dislocation of the hip. readily set up and Sedillot, a French surgeon, has sug-gested that when pulleys are used, we should measure the exact power Fisr. 284.
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