Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1776 edition. Excerpt: ... / light;--every man who has had the leaft experience in Surgery, will eafily recoiled: and acknowledge the appearances which generally exhibit themfelves in DEGREESFradures of the. lower extremities, where the ends of the broken bone occafion more or lefs deformity, according to the nature of the fradlure and the force of the furrounding mufcles--in oblique fradurcs of the thigh, this efFed is very remarkable, the ends of the bones lap over each other to a confiderable diftance, and produce a very apparent inequality in the appearance of the limb, often attended with much pain, from the marp points or edges of the broken extremities. The pofition which the patient always endeavours to place himfelf in, under thefe circumftances, will clearly point Dut the true ftate of his cafe, as well as the moft rational mode of relief. Far from ftretching out his injured limb, or lying on his back, the fituation in which Surgeons place him for his relief, he naturally and inftindively feeks it by gently turning himfelf upon the injured fide, drawing up the thigh towards the body, and bending the knee, by which means the mufcles or moving powers, are immediately put into a ftate of the utmoit relaxation, and their adion upon the bones or livers entirely removed, which reftorcs the patient to a, flate of cafe and quiet. What is the reafon, fays Mr. Pott, that a fradture of the os humeri is fo eafily reduced and maintained in its fuuation, with fo little pain pain and difficulty? It is becaufe both the patH cnt and operator, are obliged as it were, contrary to the mode of treatment in the lower limbs, to place the mufcles of the arm in a ftate of relaxation, by bending the elbow, fupporting it in, a fling or fcarf, and approaching it to the fide of
