A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . Lentes thigh-splint. The apparatus invented by Dr. Burge, of Brooklyn, is both a frac-ture-bed and a splint, and was constructed with the same view ofremoving pressure from the front of the groin. The principles in- Fier. Burges apparatus. volved and the general plan of construction will be sufficiently ex-plained by a study of the accompanying wood-cuts. FRACTURES OF THE SHAFT OF THE FEMUR. 411 There are a few, however, of our most distinguished surgeons, whoretain the flexed position in certain fractures, such as an obliquedownward a
A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . Lentes thigh-splint. The apparatus invented by Dr. Burge, of Brooklyn, is both a frac-ture-bed and a splint, and was constructed with the same view ofremoving pressure from the front of the groin. The principles in- Fier. Burges apparatus. volved and the general plan of construction will be sufficiently ex-plained by a study of the accompanying wood-cuts. FRACTURES OF THE SHAFT OF THE FEMUR. 411 There are a few, however, of our most distinguished surgeons, whoretain the flexed position in certain fractures, such as an obliquedownward and forward fracture, occurring just below the trochanterminor, and a similar fracture just above the condyles, or in certain Fig-. 165.
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