A Treatise on Fractures, Luxations, and Other Affections of the Bones

by P.-J. Desault

ARTICLE III.

EXPLANATION OF THE THIRD PLATE.

This plate gives a full view of an apparatus for making permanent extension, in oblique fractures of the leg, when both bones are broken. This apparatus was first devised and constructed several years ago, by Dr. James Hutchinson, then a pupil in the Pennsylvania hospital, and is now in general use among the practitioners of Philadelphia.

Plate 3. Hooker delt.    Tanner, Sc.

Fig. 1. Represents the leg and foot, with the apparatus applied.