Most fractures, or broken bones, in children or young boys or girls, heal very rapidly; and if the limb be properly straightened and Splinted by competent hands, it will be practically as good and as strong as before the accident.
"A Handbook of Health"
Woods Hutchinson
Their bones are not so brittle as those of "grown-ups"; and even when one of them is broken, if properly Splinted and dressed, it will heal up in a little more than half the time required by the adult.
"A Handbook of Health"
Woods Hutchinson
Fractured bones were Splinted or encased in plaster.
"Our Legal Heritage, 4th Ed."
S. A. Reilly