Translate

Picture Gallery

Orthopedic Surgery

Orthopedic Surgery

Prehistoric skeletons have commonly demonstrated evidence of healed fractures, and certainly physicians have always been faced with the need to address broken bones and displaced joints.  Some of the finest early illustrations were those of the skeletal system, and orthopedic repair was a subject of some of the earliest medical texts.

Antique Chapters



Feldtbüch der Wundartzney (1517) by Hans von Gersdorff
This is an illustration of some of the many types of wounds inflicted during battle for thousands of years and the challenges they presented to military physicians.
,
Armamentarium Chiruigicum (1655) by Joannis Scultetus
multiple early trauma sustained in battle
,
arrow remover (ca. 1540)
The blades were sharpened on the outside. The operator would insert the device by following the tract of the arrow in with the instrument closed, and then widen to create a tract for the arrow to be removed.
,
bullet screw, sixteenth century
This instrument followed the path of the bullet and then screwed into the projectile for removal.
,
exhibition bullet screw by Luer (ca. 1860)
,
Feldtbüch der Wundartzney (1517) by Hans von Gersdorff
This is an early device for repair of a fractured leg.
,
seventeenth century fracture or dislocation repair
several early and simple approaches to an orthopedic procedure
,
seventeenth century fracture or dislocation repair
,
Armamentarium Chiruigicum (1655) by Joannis
repair of a fracture or dislocation
,
Anatomia Pathologique du corps Humain, book 2 (1835–1842) by J. Cruveilhier
a representation of a dislocated femur
,
Anatomia Pathologique du corps Humain, book 2 (1835–1842) by J. Cruveilhier
a fractured femur
,
wooden leg splint (ca. 1850) by A.M. Day of Bennington, Vermont
Similar devices were employed during the Civil War.
,
Cased orthopedic set (1877) by Lindenmaier
This surgical set was specifically taylored to patients with orthopedic injuries.
,
unmarked bone drilling set (ca. 1880)
,
The Graphic Feb. 5, 1887
This is a scene from a typical orthopedic ward in the latter part of the nineteenth century.
  Neurosurgery Civil War and the Battle of Cold Harbor