Excerpt from On the Advantages of the Starched Apparatus in the Treatment of Fractures and Diseases of Joints: Being the First Part of an Essay to Which the Council of University College Have Awarded the Liston Clinical MedalThe starched apparatus is made up of pads to protect the bony prominences from pressure, bandages, and pasteboard Splints smeared with starch. So soon as the latter is dry, an exceedingly firm yet light casing for a limb is formed.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.