USRE232E - Improvement in splints for fractures - Google Patents

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ADAM HAYS, 0F PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN SPLINTS FOR FRACTURES.

Speciication forming part of Letters Patent No. 7,561, dated August 13, 1850; Reissue No. 232, dated March 8, 1853.

To all whom it may concern l enough to give the surgeon free access to Be it known that I, ADAM HAvs, formerly dress the parts as often as. may be necessary. ofthe city of Madison, county ot Jei'erson and The slide is cut one-fourth or one-third of an State of Indiana, now of the city of Pittsburg, inch larger on each side of its upper edge than the lower. The upper and lower portions of State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new andimproved construction of splints for treatthe splint thus separated I unite by a steel or iron brace, of an arched shape, (sce letter Bin ing simple or compound fractures or other in juries or diseases of the thigh, leg, arm, and the Drawings Nos. 1 and 2,) so as to hold the forearm, or any other part ot' the system in two portions of the splint in their proper which extension and counter-extension can be places. rIhe piece of the splint out out, or a benecially applied so as to keep the parts in similar one, may be converted into a slide (see their proper rela-tive position, at the same time letter A, Nos. l and 2) to workin a groove on affording free access to dress the parts as often f each end, (see letters C and D.) The slide can as necessary by means of the brace and slide, .be drawn out at each dressing, the brace keepwhich will enable the surgeon to retain the ining the limb firmly in a proper position while juredor diseased part in its proper position, dressingis accomplished. vThe extension and and which he verily believes has not been counter-extension being uniformly kept up, no known or used prior to the invention thereof displacement can take place. After each by yourv petitioner. dressing the slide is to be returned to its prop- The nature of my invention is such as to er place to give support to the parts. By enable the surgeon to keep up permanent exmeans of the slip placed in the loops at the tension and counter-extension throughout lthe upper end of the lower splint and the lower treatment necessary, so as to keep the parts end of the upper splint and the slide the in their proper relative position, and at the whole is kept rm and fixed. The slip is same time afford opportunity for dressing as marked letter @,and is shown with blue ink. often as may be necessary without risking any What I claim as my invention, and desire displacement ot the parts, and thus accomto secure by Letters Patent, isplish a most important object in the manage Y The cutting out a portion of the splint to ment of such cases. afford an opportunityfor dressing as often as To enable others skilled in the art and scimay be necessary, the upper andlower porence of surgery to make and use my invention, f tions of the'splint being kept firmly united I will proceed to describe its construction and by means of the brace B, so as by extension operation. and counter-extension to keep throughout the I take the splintv and dressing, such as has treatment the proper relative position of the been in public use and known as Physicks parts concerned, the slide being replaced after Improvement of Dassault77 (see No. l'in the each dressing, or any other device substandrawings,) or, in case both limbs require the tially the same. treatment, Gibsons Improvement of Hagel dorn,77 (see N o. 2 in the drawing,) which is also in public use. Opposite the fracture, disease, or injury I cut out a portion of the splint (see let-ter A in the Drawings Nos. l and 2) large ADAM HAYS.

t lVitnesses:

M. BUCKMASTER, CH. MCOLURE H'Avs.

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