Description of a splint, (with plates and cases) : invented for the treatment of fractured limbs / by James M'Intyre.

  • M'Intyre, James.
Date:
[1825]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Description of a splint, (with plates and cases) : invented for the treatment of fractured limbs / by James M'Intyre. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    TO THE SOCIETY FOR THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF ARTS, MANUFAC- TURES, AND COMMERCE. My Lords and Gentlemen, I TAKE the liberty of calling your attention to a Splint I have invented, for the greater security of fractured limbs, and the abbreviation of the long, and frequently injurious, confinement consequent upon the usual modes of treat- ment. I have applied this Splint, during the last five years, to nearly two hundred cases, many of which were of the most severe descrip- tion, without the loss of a single life, and with- out any confinement to bed, excepting a few B