. A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . constant result of fractures of the femur treated by While Mr. Gamgee, a writer of much talent and industry, thusbroadly contradicts the statements of Desault, South, Dorsey, andAmesbury, and administers a severe rebuke even upon the illustriousListon: Potts plan, the long splint, MIntyre, and their modifica-tions, as a rule entail sensible deformity, which in many cases is very 1 Works of Desault. Op. cit., p. 225. s Amesbury on Fractures, &c, vol. i. p. 310. 3 Op. cit., vol. i. p. 384. FRACTURES OF THE SHAFT OF THE FEMUR. 40
. A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . constant result of fractures of the femur treated by While Mr. Gamgee, a writer of much talent and industry, thusbroadly contradicts the statements of Desault, South, Dorsey, andAmesbury, and administers a severe rebuke even upon the illustriousListon: Potts plan, the long splint, MIntyre, and their modifica-tions, as a rule entail sensible deformity, which in many cases is very 1 Works of Desault. Op. cit., p. 225. s Amesbury on Fractures, &c, vol. i. p. 310. 3 Op. cit., vol. i. p. 384. FRACTURES OF THE SHAFT OF THE FEMUR. 403 considerable. It is a significant fact, that, though the example esta-blished in University College Hospital by the late Mr. Liston, oftreating fractures of the thigh by the long splint (Fig. 129), and of theleg by the modified MIntyre, which are admitted equal, if not superior,to other splints, was rigidly followed in that institution, the patientsadmitted with brokeu thighs or legs were frequently discharged withmanifest Fig. Listons method, recommended by Samuel Cooper, Fergusson, Pirrie, and others. With how much force his own remarks as to the experience of theUniversity College Hospital will apply to the starched bandages usedby himself, the reader will be able to determine when referred to theopinion of Velpeau, already quoted, who claims no result better thanan average shortening of half an inch. It is true, however, that prefers and advocates the starched bandage, but it is not truethat he claims to be able to prevent a shortening of the bone. What other modes of treatment would have given such results?This question, propounded, no doubt honestly, by Mr. Gamgee, hashere its fair and satisfactory answer. Almost any of the variousmodes named; for if we must receive his testimony, we are equallybound to receive the testimony of Desault, South, Dorsey, Amesbury,and Scott. If we give credit to Mr. Gamgee, so far as to doubt thestatements of the
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