. A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . surgeons, bythe vote of an overwhelming majority, have declared again in favorof the straight position. This is the epoch of our own day. Although American surgeons have generally adopted the straightsplint in the treatment of fractures of the thigh, yet the form andconstruction of the splint have been greatly varied. The simple longsplint of Desault and the more complicated apparatus of Boyer (), have each their advocates; but it is seldom that we meet withthese, or with any of the other forms of apparatus originally employedin for
. A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . surgeons, bythe vote of an overwhelming majority, have declared again in favorof the straight position. This is the epoch of our own day. Although American surgeons have generally adopted the straightsplint in the treatment of fractures of the thigh, yet the form andconstruction of the splint have been greatly varied. The simple longsplint of Desault and the more complicated apparatus of Boyer (), have each their advocates; but it is seldom that we meet withthese, or with any of the other forms of apparatus originally employedin foreign countries, without noticing that they have been subjectedto considerable modifications; indeed, most of the straight splints aswell as double-inclined planes in use at present among American sur-geons, may farily be regarded as original inventions. Nathan Smith, of New Haven ;J Nathan R. Smith, of Baltimore2(Fig. 134); Nott, of Mobile3 (Fig. 136); McNaughton, of Albany,4 andValentine Mott, of New York, are the only American surgeons of Fig. Nathan R. Smiths suspending apparatus, or double inclined plane. distinguished reputation, and with whose practice I am familiar, whorecommend exclusively the double-inclined plane; and perhaps wehave a right to infer from the following paragraphs, copied from a let-ter addressed to the author a year or two since, that the opinions ofDr. Mott have undergone some modification in view of the improve-ments recently made in the construction of straight splints, and inthe means of extension and counter-extension. Many years since I introduced into the New York HospitalBoyers long splint, and continued to use it there, and in privatepractice, for a long time. I found, however, in many cases, that Ihad more or less trouble at the foot and groin from the points of ex-tension and counter-extension. I then gradually laid it aside, and forsome years have again taken up the double inclined plane. From the abundance which I have seen, I am fre
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