A Readily Made Splint for Compound Fractures of the Femur and the Bones of the Leg
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the wound may be the strapping is omitted so as to allow ready access to it. An ordinary extension stirrup is applied to the leg and the foot-piece of the stirrup is fastened to a weight by means of a string passing over an ordinary reel acting as a pulley fixed in the vertical foot-piece of the splint. The thigh rests in the padded notch of the buttock-piece and the ischial tuberosity is brought to bear on its superior surface which has also been padded and the whole protected by mackintosh sheeting. The perineum just escapes pressure owing to the difference in level between it and the ischial
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