Description of an apparatus intended to facilitate the treatment of fractures of the lower extremity / [Thomas Michael Greenhow].

  • Greenhow, T. M. (Thomas Michael), 1791-1881.
Date:
1833
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Description of an apparatus intended to facilitate the treatment of fractures of the lower extremity / [Thomas Michael Greenhow]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    delicate and effectual agent for the accomplishment of the first of these objects, and the simpler the means by which the second is attained the better. If the truth of these positions were proved by the practical experience of Surgeons accustomed to the management of such accidents, the Author would be the last to propose less simple means for fulfilling the indications to be attended to in their treatment ; ut as the annals of surgery abound with proofs of the occasional, if not frequent, fail¬ ure of the means referred to, and, indeed, of any means hitherto employed, in ensuring in all cases a perfect recovery, and in preventing much suffer¬ ing during the treatment, the Author deems him¬ self not only justified, but bound by the most sacred ties of duty, to lay before the public the mode in which the employment of an additional mechanical power may be resorted to with more than ordinary certainty of success. Nor is it wonderful, when we reflect on the con¬ dition of a fractured limb, that it should require the most diligent efforts of the human mind, guid¬ ed by the purest principles of mechanical science, to devise the most effectual means of controlling the various disturbing causes which are called into