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part of the fplint, mud be fhorter than thofe on the 
pofteriour e e e, which are to furround the more 
mufcular part of the leg. 
C. A part to fupport the foot, from the point # 
to the heel c, five inches long, at an angle of fixty 
degrees. 
D. The foot-drap, twelve inches long, fewed to 
the bottom of the under fplint, within two inches of 
the point, to pafs under the heel and through the 
leather loop on the upper fplint, to the lowed pin. 
E. An irregular oval hole, two inches long and 
almod one wide in the lowed part, but decreafing 
upwards, to receive the malleolus externus , or lower 
extremity of the fibula. 
Fig. II. Reprefents the leg railed up, to lhew the 
dtuation of the under fplint, when properly applied. 
Fig. III. Reprefents a fractured leg, when laid 
within the fplints, according to the method I am 
about to recommend, having the docking-foot (or 
fock) and fhoe upon it : the darked fhade in this and 
Fig. II. being intended tofhew that part of the fplints 
within the fhoe. 
Fig. IV. A the upper fplint. BBB the pins. 
C the leather loop to receive the foot-drap. 
Fig. V. A many-tailed bandage, made of dips of 
Rudia linnen, regularly increafing in length from 
twelve or fourteen to eighteen or twenty inches, 
according to the fize of the leg. Each of thefe dips 
(being two inches broad) is fo laid as to cover half the 
breadth of that which is underneath it (viz. one inch). 
Another dip, ten or twelve inches long, is fewed on 
the back fo as to unite them all in the middle, making 
a bandage equally as firm as a circular one, and which 
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