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Defcriplion of a new invented Injlrument 
for fraSlured Legs, [conft fling of two Parts , 
which at prejent I foall call tipper and 
under fplints) recommended to be ufed 
injlead of the common Apparatus. ( See the 
Plate.) 
r|~^HE figures are drawn on a fcale of three inches 
to a foot, and reprefent two fplints of ftrong 
pafteboard, made with glew, to be faftened upon a 
fradtured leg, by three ftraps which furround the 
whole. 
Thefe are adapted to the leg of a middle-fized 
man ; neverthelefs it may be convenient to have two 
other fizes, the one about twenty two inches in length, 
and the other fixteen. 
Tab. V. Fig. I. A reprefents an under fplint of an 
irregular form, fuitable to that part of the leg it is in- 
tended to cover; it is a little convex externally, and 
concave internally. The length eighteen inches, from 
a to b. The width two inches and three quarters, at 
the ftrap near the knee, and two inches and a quarter 
at both the other ftraps. ' 
B B B. Three leather ftraps from fifteen to twenty 
inches long, and one inch wide, having two rows of 
holes lo placed that every hole in each row may be 
oppofite to a fpace in the other. Thefe mu ft be 
fewed faft to the middle and outfide of the under 
fplint. The portions of ftraps ddd on the anteriour 
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