Thomas Leg Splint
date: label: date made
content: ca 1920
name: label: maker
content: DePuy Manufacturing Company
notes: label: Description
content: Hugh Owen Thomas (1834-1891) was an English bone setter, as were many of his relatives, and it was he who invented the Thomas Splint. His nephew, Colonel Robert Jones, promoted the use of the Thomas splint for the initial treatment of femoral fractures, thus greatly reducing the mortality related to this problem during World War I.
label: Description
content: This Thomas Splint was made by the DePuy Manufacturing Company, a firm established in Warsaw, Ind., in 1895, by Revra DePuy (1860-1921), a chemist and pharmaceutical salesman who promoted fiber splints that could be customized to fit patients.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Indiana, Warsaw
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: Modern Medicine and the Great War
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of William P. Evans
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-07293.01
label: catalog number
content: M-07293.01
label: accession number
content: 217731
objectType: label: Object Name
content: leg splint
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal; cloth (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 115 cm x 30 cm x 30 cm; 45 9/32 in x 11 13/16 in x 11 13/16 in