A system of surgery / Benjamin Bell . Ch. XXXIX. dently mows that we are ftill deficientin this branch of practice. The treatment of fractures being oneof the moft important branches of fur-gery, and to prevent lamenefs one of ourtirfl: objects, much ingenuity has beenmown in the invention of fome methodby which this purpofe might be anfwer-ed. It has been propofed, and by feve-ral practitioners has been attempted, infractures of the thigh, to fecure the pa-tients body, as one fixed point, by meansof different bandages, to the upper partof the bed, and by an axis in peritrochioat the foot of t
A system of surgery / Benjamin Bell . Ch. XXXIX. dently mows that we are ftill deficientin this branch of practice. The treatment of fractures being oneof the moft important branches of fur-gery, and to prevent lamenefs one of ourtirfl: objects, much ingenuity has beenmown in the invention of fome methodby which this purpofe might be anfwer-ed. It has been propofed, and by feve-ral practitioners has been attempted, infractures of the thigh, to fecure the pa-tients body, as one fixed point, by meansof different bandages, to the upper partof the bed, and by an axis in peritrochioat the foot of the bed, to make fuch adegree of extenfion as might be fullyequal to the purpofe of retaining thefractured bones. But all who are ac-quainted with the fretful irritable ftateIn which patients with fractures com-monly are, and with the pain which tightbandages always excite, will know, thatalthough propofals of this kind may ap-pear to advantage in theoretical difqui-iitions, they will never probably be of real <s Pla TK. HXXTD i i. IlCr. 2.
Size: 1308px × 1910px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., book, booksubjectgeneralsurgery, booksubjectsurgery, bookyear1783
