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A History of Depressed Skull Fractures from Ancient Times to 1800 (2014)

Ganz, Jeremy C. (Author)
Arndt, Jürgen (Author)

Journal of the History of the Neurosciences
Volume: 23, no. 3
Issue: 3
Pages: 233-251
Publication date: 2014
Language: English

DOI: 10.1080/0964704X.2013.823267

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Bone and bones Injuries Medicine, general histories Illustrations Surgery 16th century Ancient Gersdorff, Hans von Paré, Ambroise Celsus, Aulus Cornelius Galen

The story of managing depressed fractures illustrates how knowledge of proven value does not always get handed down. Celsus was the first to describe sensible management for depressed fractures. As he wrote in Latin this was forgotten. Galen's Greek writings survived forming the basis of management until the sixteenth century. In 1517, Hans von Gersdorff published a formidable illustrated surgical text. One illustration depicts an instrument for elevating depressed bone fragments. It looked dramatic but could not work and its defects were finally defined in the eighteenth century. Ambroise Paré used a bone punch just as we do today, but no later surgeon mentions this, though the instrument was well known. Elements of chance, fashion, emotionally powerful illustrations, and perhaps stubbornness had a profound effect on management delaying rational treatment for centuries.

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