A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . of the last century, at which time Percival Pott wrotehis remarkable treatise on fractures ; a work distinguished for the origi-nality and boldness of its sentiments, and which was destined soon torevolutionize, especially throughout Great Britain, the old notions asto the treatment of fractures, and to establish in their stead, at least fora time, what has been called, not inappropriately, the physiologicaldoctrine; the peculiarity of which doctrine consisted in its assump-tion that the resistance of those muscles which tend to produce shor
A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . of the last century, at which time Percival Pott wrotehis remarkable treatise on fractures ; a work distinguished for the origi-nality and boldness of its sentiments, and which was destined soon torevolutionize, especially throughout Great Britain, the old notions asto the treatment of fractures, and to establish in their stead, at least fora time, what has been called, not inappropriately, the physiologicaldoctrine; the peculiarity of which doctrine consisted in its assump-tion that the resistance of those muscles which tend to produce short-ening can generally be sufficiently overcome by posture, without theaid of extension; and that for this purpose, for example, in the caseof a broken femur, it was only necessary to flex the leg upon the thigh,and the thigh upon the body, laying the limb afterwards quietly onits outside upon the bed. Very few surgeons, even of his own day, ever gave in their full ad-hesion to the exclusive physiological system as taught and practised Fi<?. Double-inclined plane employed in Middlesex Hospital, London. FRACTURES OF THE SHAFT OF THE FEMUR. 399 by Pott himself; but multitudes, especiall}7 among the English, adoptediu general his views, only choosing to place the patients upon theirbacks rather than upon their sides, and laying the limbs flexed over adouble-inclined plane. To the support of this system of Potts, thusmodified, Sir Astley Cooper, C. Bell, John Bell, Earle, White, Sharp,and Amesbury lent the influence of their great names, and its triumphs,so far as the judgment of British surgeons was concerned, soon becamecomplete. Fig. 137.
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