1851 Great Exhibition: Official Catalogue: Class X.: G. B. List
175. LIST, G. B., Southampton — Inventor.
An apparatus for setting fractures, and as a rest for the treatment of other accidents and diseases of the lower extremities. Manufactured by J. R. Stebbing, Southampton. It is stated that a surgeon, by the use of this apparatus, can, without any other assistance, set simple, compound, and compound-comminuted fractures of the lower extremity: that it keeps the fractured ends of the bone in apposition, without the aid of splints for the after treatment; that tight straps or bandages encircling the limb above the injury, are not employed; that the limb, when the bone is set, can immediately, or at any time during the healing process, be put into any position that may be most comfortable to the patient without inconvenience. This apparatus is also stated to be an excellent rest for the treatment of fractured patella, diseased hip-joints, popliteal aneurism (by compression), varicose veins, ulcers, and other accidents and diseases of the lower extremities.