The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1881-03-29 00:00:00

.-K—reply to, his /Insures. Kr. Stowed' mild be edtsitted
ths it -sift tn-4y. . .

His Hononr : 11 11 goes cm shortening at the
rate of lb inches in ail months. his leg, in • abort time,
will die...rear sit mother. (Laughter.)
Witness continued he thought there was no utilises of
sogligenos In the treatment ;the extension which thetas&
had spolt-m to himself as hay* been made at the that
the 11PliSta were put on was WI that was required, if.
could not find any fault with the splints or the
lion of them. He would be perfectly setidled to bare Me
own leg triaged in the souse way.
Crom-examined : He differed from Mr. Lumen" . he
believed • certain amouot shortening must isee anon
place since he had sun him.
How do you account for the shortening being now 2b,
when it Was only lb when you saw him have so doubt
some amonot of almorption of the boss has taken plate.
Hr. Howard: I should have thought that would hay,
reduced the shortening.
Witness: What, the two traded the boo. waken awe,
would incrrese toe raugth of the leg I He said that the
foot and ankle could have been teken hold of at my tlemi
with those splints arid • proper extension mad.. Re au,
ferred that way. The firm union of the bone ha maw
huinua had been effected by the proper direction of the
aorta of nature by art.
His Honour asked if he could account for the pienta,
I Mout. that when Dr. Philpote examined the leg, whicit
was before the witness, he found it nearly fib tsars shut
Maras said he could not.
Mr. Leech, medical practitioner of Sturmintter Newton,
wag presect with the last witness, when he saw tie.
plaintiff. The result of his measurement we. that the
I shortness was lb to If inches. He could see nothing to
Sod fault with the treatment. He was of opision that la
, obliqoe fracture., shortening almost invariably took plate
I more or less. He also accounted for the pressen amount,
shortening to • certain extent by the aboorptioa of tits
been
Cross-examined: lii last attended a I natured thigh
about two end shall years age. He was house • organ. kj
trap Bristol Hompital, where he had seen • great
H. would not like to pus his opinion upon the treatment
I discus, the circtunsiassoes of which be did rut mi, flo
had 'away' himself been prepared for ext /tisien, but he
1 had seen Dr. Orickeon treat a fractured leg simply with
1, @Welted bandages, and there was very little shoeteeine
Mr. Lys, surgeons of Baril Regis. sew UN Plaintig...
that time, and was surprised I, we him movies 5., eu
after what he Ited Weed. His meseuremeat due
lag was only • little over an inch. His opiniee
tue.)..,11 had got a good, firm useful limb, considerbie irt,e
(story.
erase-examined : He couldn't account for Dr, paiieute
barring made it two and a-quarter in N reatler. 004 of
them, he 'apposed, must have made • mistake.
iH is Honour said the actual measurement now was the
thing.
He would have used extension the rants es Dr. Stain.
*ogee had done, and as wee rraoulmradoi by fiir raditain
Ferguson. The extension would certainly have hens Up
by the splints and bandages.
His Honour here remarked it was a rues of very rod
importance, and he Was sitting there really with euout
powers to cue of the judges of the High Court, hut with-
out his salary. (Laughter.) As it did DOS seem likely thee
would finish the case that day, be would ask the leaned
advocates what they proposed to do.
After some c insultallen, Mr. Symonds said he would
pot Ise defendant in tbe box.
Dr. Sminthorpe. the drifendent. said he re.d.rd at Wan.
bens, and was in practice th-re. On going t the plaintiff's
lodgings at Wareham. oo the 15th of June, he found him
upstairs on a bed. with • fractured thigh He put it up in
the evening. moviding the senate, and adopting the
method recommended by Sir William Toren/on-es long
outside splint and a short inside, folded op in • table
cloth, and then to lay it by the side of the so Di lee t..
ascertain the length, and that it was in peition. He slid
this, and, darling there was no shortening, pot the lee In
the 'plink, Puld'd thou. Put cm th" bandages, end Wt
him. Be spoke to Dr. Daniel .1.11 reference tu the,
Ho attended him daily for a fortnieht, and measured the
began three or four aCCWS*OIII, finding no rtflrrisento at all.
After five week, end five days in bed, 130 pat him on •
starched bandage, and gave him a Cl lug, and told him to
go out and get fresh air. Re had newer Ca:00.611.d of his
treatment, and it, landlady had said in plain•iff's preseeras
if eity thine went wrong it could not he hi. feiterse'sb
fault Ater he received a letter from Mown Marshfield
and Hot lons, he sew the plaintiff, end told him ha sant
to have come and complained to him fleet B. then
promised to submit to an exteneion, but afterward•
declined. Is his judgment he considered he did all the
cue required.
Croesrextmlned : At that time, taking his own theory,
it woe porsible.ll mike one leg sp blip as the other..

Then how did you account for the shorte;hin s—By
retraution.rg the muscles end a_ltecrotica.

..iirTut.C;fid you do to prevent this i—f put co the splints
an 4 bandages. . . . . .

D 3 you mesa to esy that is the very heir plan that conl4
have been adopted I—The best In ray oonsideration for the
Ws.
Do you maim to say Sir William Fannon and the
authorities would lay that down as the best to prevent
retraction I—Yes.
Then, if so, why should weights and all that be need I—'
Because in the general way of treating fractures two
splints are not used.
(Question repeated) I—These are differesees of opinion.
Tome are the splint. .ithout holes that Sir William
Ferguson recommends I—Yes.
And they answer eyery purpose I—Yes.
Therefore, you differ from everybody else I-1 de not
differ from every body. Different people advocate different
methods of treatment.
When did you first me one of the legs wee shorter thou
the other I—When be get out of bed.
The Court the. adjourned until Thursday next at 11.