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may be ufed without difturbing the leg. The narrowed 
part muft be placed neareft to the heel. As the 
number of flips are to be lefTened or increafed accord- 
ing to the fpace necefTary to be inclofed within them, 
I call this a many-taiied bandage, leaving the precife 
number to be determined according to the nature of the 
circumflances. 
This has been ufed many years in St. Bartholo- 
mew’s hofpital, inftead of the old eighteen-headed 
bandage, neverthelefs, as it is not generally known, 
I hope this delcription will not be thought fuper- 
fluous. 
The three different fizes of fplints above-mentioned 
will generally be fufhcient j at leaf! one or other of 
them may ferve any leg of an adult till others can be 
provided. 
The legs of children, as they are more round and 
lefs mul'cular, may be defended (nearly in the fame 
manner) with the common wooden fplints (properly 
bolflered), that are now made ufe of in St. Bartholo- 
mew’s hofpital ; provided they are long enough to 
fecure both articulations of the fractured bone. 
When a furgeon is called to a fractured leg, at the 
place where the accident happened, let him lay the 
patient on the injured fide, upon a flat furface ; and 
raile the knee of the fradtured limb towards the 
abdomen, bending at the fame time the knee joint, lb 
as to put the extenfor mufclesof the foot (which are the 
itrongelt) into a Hate of relaxation. He will then be 
enabled to replace the ends of the fractured bones, 
and reftore them to their proper fituation, without the 
cuitomary ftrong extenfion of the limb ; which is 
troublefome to the furgeon, painful to the patient, and 
apt 
