TY  - JOUR
T1  - COnvenient first dressings in leg fractures.
AU  - TRICKLE EH
Y1  - 1899/03/11
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1899.92450370024001i
JO  - Journal of the American Medical Association
SP  - 538
EP  - 539
VL  - XXXII
IS  - 10
N2  - While my surgical experience only dates back thirty years, my observation of the management of leg fractures extends over half a century. When but a boy of 10 years of age, my brother had his leg broken below the knee while wrestling. The village doctor was called. He inspected the leg and sent me to bring him seven yards of calico. He tore off one strip for a bandage, split a shingle in two or three pieces, laid them around the leg, rolled his calico bandage around the sticks and directed the family to keep it wet with cold water. With every movement of the body my brother would howl with pain. After a long time he got around with crutches and finally walked, but his leg was badly crooked. Fortunately, a few years later he sustained another fracture of the same leg, and the surgeon in attendance kept it
SN  - 0002-9955
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1899.92450370024001i
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1899.92450370024001i
ER  -