. A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . and laying the limbs flexed over adouble inclined plane. (Fig. 130.) To the support of this system ofPotts, thus modified, Sir Astley Cooper, C. Bell, John Bell, Earle,White, Sharp, and Amesbury (Figs. 131, 132), lent the influence oftheir great names, and its triumph, so far as the judgment of Britishsurgeons was concerned, soon became complete. In France, and upon the continent generally, the reception of thissystem was more slow and reluctant; but Dupuytren now for oncetaking ground with his great rival, Sir Astley, adopted almost witho
. A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . and laying the limbs flexed over adouble inclined plane. (Fig. 130.) To the support of this system ofPotts, thus modified, Sir Astley Cooper, C. Bell, John Bell, Earle,White, Sharp, and Amesbury (Figs. 131, 132), lent the influence oftheir great names, and its triumph, so far as the judgment of Britishsurgeons was concerned, soon became complete. In France, and upon the continent generally, the reception of thissystem was more slow and reluctant; but Dupuytren now for oncetaking ground with his great rival, Sir Astley, adopted almost withoutqualification these novel views. The decision of Dupuytren deter-mined the opinions of a large portion of the continental surgeons;and had it not been for the early and decisive opposition of Desaultand Boyer (Fig. 133), the great surgeon of St. Bartholomew mighthave continued for a long time to have enjoyed a triumph upon thecontinent, and perhaps throughout the world, equal to that which hadalready been decreed to him in Great Britain. Fig. Boyers splint. On this side of the Atlantic, the practice of Pott, at least in so faras it applied to the treatment of fractures of the thigh, never gaineda distinguished advocate ; and but few ever adopted the practice asmodified by White, Amesbury, Bell, A. Cooper, &c. But whatever may have been the early success of these doctrines,either here or elsewhere, it is certain that a strong reaction has takenplace, and that gradually, in all parts of the world, the opinions ofpractical surgeons have been settling back into their old channel. Itwould be difficult to find to-day, in France, a dozen distinguished sur-geons who adopt universally the flexed position in the treatment offractures of the femur; and in England the reaction is, if possible,even more complete. In my tour of 1844, during which I visited very many of the hos-pitals of Great Britain and upon the continent of Europe, I do notremember to have^een the flexed position o
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