The principles and practice of surgery: embracing minor and operative surgery : with a bibliographical index of American surgical writers from the year 1783 to 1860 : arranged for the use of students (Volume 2) . Fig. 4fil.—Kolbfes Peg. with extra ends, for slippery pavements, 462.—Kolbes Artifi ial Leg. as it appears iiucovered by the stocking. Fig. 4P3.—A Section of Kolbes Leg, showing its general mechanism. In the motion of the foot and theankle-joint it is usually perfect. (After the Leg.) PAPERS ON DISORDERS AND OPERATTONS ON THE EXTREMITIES. 717 with the distinct understanding t
The principles and practice of surgery: embracing minor and operative surgery : with a bibliographical index of American surgical writers from the year 1783 to 1860 : arranged for the use of students (Volume 2) . Fig. 4fil.—Kolbfes Peg. with extra ends, for slippery pavements, 462.—Kolbes Artifi ial Leg. as it appears iiucovered by the stocking. Fig. 4P3.—A Section of Kolbes Leg, showing its general mechanism. In the motion of the foot and theankle-joint it is usually perfect. (After the Leg.) PAPERS ON DISORDERS AND OPERATTONS ON THE EXTREMITIES. 717 with the distinct understanding that the crippled sufferers from amputationshall not be subjected to the evils caused by taking out a patent, Figs. 461,462, and 463. In Plate LXXYIII. Figs. 10, 11, are represented two boots, which willprove useful in affording support to the foot after the performance of Lis-francs or Choparts operation. As a general rule, few stumps will be able to sustain the pressure arisingfrom the constant use of a peg or an artificial limb under ten weeks afterthe entire healing of the wound, even when the stump is well soaked everynight in a strong decoction of white-oak bark to harden the skin. In thebest-f
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