Catalogue of Sharp & Smith : importers, manufacturers, wholesale and retail dealers in surgical instruments, deformity apparatus, artificial limbs, artificial eyes, elastic stockings, trusses, crutches, supporters, galvanic and faradic batteries, etc., surgeons' appliances of every description . ure hisposition. If extension is desired, for the greater security of restand position, longitudinal and circular, straps of Canton flanneladhesive plaster should be applied and fastened, the former to thefoot-board. With this apparatus direct extension can be exercised,while the counter extension rest


Catalogue of Sharp & Smith : importers, manufacturers, wholesale and retail dealers in surgical instruments, deformity apparatus, artificial limbs, artificial eyes, elastic stockings, trusses, crutches, supporters, galvanic and faradic batteries, etc., surgeons' appliances of every description . ure hisposition. If extension is desired, for the greater security of restand position, longitudinal and circular, straps of Canton flanneladhesive plaster should be applied and fastened, the former to thefoot-board. With this apparatus direct extension can be exercised,while the counter extension rests with the healthy extremity, onthe same principle we employ in having our boot pulled off. Inthis position and rest are insured. The patient can pass hisfa?ces with perfect ease by raising the lower end of the apparatusand placing a bed pan under it. You can carry the patient fromone place to another, put him in a carriage, draw or drive him inthe open air, and thus meet all the objections that have been raisedto confinement. Directions for Measurement. Patients weight. Length from sole of foot to axilla, Inches. Length from sole of foot to perineum Circumference of calf knee- at the nates . ... of pelvis at iliac crests of waist of chest under axillse. ^ip^ - 12 Price to Patients, $15 00 to 25 00. SHARP & SMITH, CHICAGO. 747


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