Arm Splint
notes: label: Description
content: Hugh Owen Thomas (1834-1891), a physician in England who came from a family of Welsh bone setters, introduced simple and effective splint in the mid-1870s. The Murray modification consisted of a joint between the rods and the ring. This arm splint of that form.
label: Description
content: Ref: Hugh Owen Thomas, book Diseases of the hip, knee and ankle joints with their deformities, treated by a new and efficient method (1875).
label: Description
content: United States, Medical Department, Army, Some Essentials in Military Surgery (Chicago, ca. 1917), p. 7.
label: Description
content: P. M. Robinson and M. J. O’Meara, “The Thomas Splint, Its Origin and Use in Trauma,” The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (British) 91-B (2009).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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-07293.04
label: catalog number
content: M-07293.04
label: accession number
content: 217731
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Splints, Leg, Batch of
label: Object Name
content: arm splint
label: Other Terms
content: Splints, Leg, Batch of; Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 94 cm x 23 cm x 23 cm; 37 in x 9 1/16 in x 9 1/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 39 in x 8 1/2 in x 3 1/2 in; 99.06 cm x 21.59 cm x 8.89 cm