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Identifier: interstatemedica1619unse (find matches)
Title: Interstate medical journal
Year: 1909 (1900s)
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Subjects: Medicine
Publisher: St. Louis, : Interstate Medical Journal
Contributing Library: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Historical Medical Library
Digitizing Sponsor: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the National Endowment for the Humanities

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Fig. 11. Scamnum of Hippocratesafter Vidius, It differs from the descrip-tion of Hippocrates in having slots insteadof grooves, but it is the oldest figure ofthe instrument. MILNE: ANCIENT SURGICAL APPARATUS 53 Palladius says that they should be made of the wood of the limetree, or, where this could not be procured, reeds were to be used. Theywere to be round, and secured with three loose fillets or ribands, one attheir upper, and one at their lower end, and one at the middle. Paulus vEgineta says that they should be arranged not more than onefingers breadth from each other. Special Splints. A special form of splints for fractures where thedeformity could not be kept reduced by ordinary methods is describedf*r -Hippocrates. One should sew two round pads of Egyptian leather, such as are•worn by persons confined for long in shackles, and the pads should bedeeper on their aspect facing the wound, and shallower on that facingthe joint, and they should be well stuffed and soft and easy f

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