Medical testimony in regard to the proper mechanical treatment of joint diseases.

  • Davis, Henry G. (Henry Gassett), 1807-1896.
Date:
[1862?]
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Credit: Medical testimony in regard to the proper mechanical treatment of joint diseases. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Monthly, May, 1856, p. 3E0: 'There is one point in my mode of making extension which I think, from the long experience I have had in its use, would be an improvement upon the general modes—and it is equally applicable in all extensions and counter-extensions, those of fractures as well as of contracted muscles—viz., the use of rubber as an extending power. This will act steadily and gradually, without any violence, and with very little suffering in comparison with permanent fixtures. When contracted muscle is to be overcome, it steadily wearies it, until it silently comes off conqueror. I would earnestly recommend the profession to give their attention to the use of this article for the accomplishment of extension. What is termed a door- spring is one good form; another, for lighter purposes, is the shirred rubber/ The correspondence of this language with that used by our author (page 326, and bottom of page 267,) is quite remarkable. We should like to have reproduced here the engravings of the 1 Davis Splint,' that we have employed long before any other splint had been brought forward.* Fig. 1. Fig. 2. Fig. 3. Fig. 4. [* Figs. 1 and 2 have previously appeared in the Monthly. We are not cer- tain that these are the illustrations our reviewer refers to, circumstances ren- dering his seeing proof-sheets of this article impracticable.—Ed.]