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  1. NLM Digital Collections - Neurosurgery (Volume 2) 
    Publication: Washington, D.C. Office of the Surgeon General, Dept. of the Army ; For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., 1958-1959
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/101135477X2
    ... and how to use his crutches properly. The tripod position was explained, as well as the alter- nate ... slight forward-leaning posi- tion, similar to the tripod position, on crutches, with his legs approximately 4 to ...
  2. NLM Digital Collections - Let's walk 
    Publication: Washington, D.C. : Published for the Air Surgeon, A.A.F. Convalescent Training Division in collaboration with the Institute for Crippled and Disabled by Headquarters Army Air Forces, Office of the Assistant Chief of Air Staff, Training, Training Aids Division, December 1944
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/14031360R
    ... down . . . stiffen arms . . . lift body . . . swing. u From tripod position, swing crutches back . . . then forward. 1 The One- ...
  3. NLM Digital Collections - Circular letter (Number 11, November 1, 1947) 
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/101711327X9
    ... in the sitting posture with the arms in tripod position. Irritability, apprehensiveness, lethargy and toxicity were usually present ...
  4. NLM Digital Collections - A text-book on surgery : general, operative, and mechanical 
    Publication: New York : Appleton, c1897
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/101598564
    ... the central portion Fig. 844.- -Suspension apparatus and tripod in position for lifting. (After Sayre.) 900 A TEXT-BOOK ...
  5. NLM Digital Collections - An American text-book of surgery : for practitioners and students 
    Publication: Philadelphia : Saunders, 1892
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/101598520
    ... a tripod, and a leather headgear Fig. 212. Tripod for the suspension of the patient. Patient in position for the application of the plaster jacket. embracing ...
  6. NLM Digital Collections - Pye's surgical handicraft : a manual of surgical manipulations, minor surgery, and other ... 
    Publication: New York : Treat, 1892
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/46331270R
    ... to be applied, gentle suspen- sion from the tripod, in the standing or sitting position, will be best; but that for young children, ... is either to suspend the patient from the tripod, or to procure the extension, and the inspiratory position, by means of an inclined plane. As we ...
  7. NLM Digital Collections - The number and distribution of micro-organisms in the air of the Boston City Hospital : with .... 
    Publication: [Boston? : s.n., 1889]
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/63051150R
    ... gelatine. The tube is fastened to a photographic tripod in a horizontal position, and, by a suitable connection with two aspirator- ...
  8. NLM Digital Collections - Conference on Spinal Cord Injuries : 19 October, 1945, Halloran General Hospital, Staten ... 
    Publication: [Governors Island, N.Y.?] : Army Service Forces, Second Service Command [1945?]
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/23810670R
    ... the feet well behind. This is the starting position of the tripod gaits, . • ' a. Tripod Alternate Crutch Gait; Crutch - Foot ...
  9. NLM Digital Collections - Surgical enquiries : including the Hastings essay on shock, the treatment of surgical ... 
    Publication: London : J. & A. Churchill, [1880]
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/66820270R
    ... as easily as on the bed should the tripod seem to give a better position, and the rapidity, without hurry, of the process ...
  10. NLM Digital Collections - The mechanism of dislocation and fracture of the hip : with the reduction of the dislocations ... 
    Publication: Philadelphia : Henry C. Lea, 1869
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/101125821
    ... Oblique extension may be made by changing the position of the tripod. Although the need of this apparatus may be ...
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