A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . John Syng Dorseys patella splint. is then cushioned, and the limb laid upon it, a roller being first applied fromthe ankle to the groin, encompassing the knee in the form of the figure of 8;after which the two muslin bands are secured across the knee in such a manneras that the lower one shall draw down the upper fragment, and the upper oneelevate the lower fragment. Mr. Lonsdale devised a very complicated apparatus. Fig. Lonsdales apparatus for fractured patella.—A B. Two vertical iron bars, each supportinga horizontal one; these hori
A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . John Syng Dorseys patella splint. is then cushioned, and the limb laid upon it, a roller being first applied fromthe ankle to the groin, encompassing the knee in the form of the figure of 8;after which the two muslin bands are secured across the knee in such a manneras that the lower one shall draw down the upper fragment, and the upper oneelevate the lower fragment. Mr. Lonsdale devised a very complicated apparatus. Fig. Lonsdales apparatus for fractured patella.—A B. Two vertical iron bars, each supportinga horizontal one; these horizontal arms slide upon the vertical bars, but can be secured atany point by the screws C D. To the horizontal beams are attached other vertical rods?which are movable, and yet fixable by screws, as .at E. Finally, to each of these last uprightpieces is fixed an iron plate, F F, by means of a hinge-joint, which keeps the patella in foot-piece is movable up and down upon the main body of the apparatus, and can bemade fast at any point, so as to adapt the splint to limbs of different lengths. Sir Astley Cooper employed two methods of approximating the fragments,which will be sufficiently illustrated by the following woodcuts: Fig. 284.
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