how to cure abrooken leg in the 1840's?

Answer 1

Broken bones were usually splinted in the 19th century. There were not casts as we know them, but wounds were usually bound up with cloth and splinted with wood.

If the bones would not heal and caused infection, the limb was usually sawed off--with an actual saw, and often no anesthetic--ether was invented in the 1840s, and before then, usually alcohol was used to intoxicate a patient before a procedure.

Answer 2

I don't know a lot about the 1840's, but what I do know I will share with you. I know that if a persons leg was broken and they usually found the best person in the area (if they were close enough) to pull the leg and set it straight. Then it was splinted so the person would keep it straight and hoped it would heal back to normal again.I also have read that sometimes the persons leg muscles were so damaged that the muscles would die from lack of oxigine thus, creating infections and gangrene! The leg had to be cut off or the person died.! I am sure grateful for modern medicine!