M0018218: Apparatus for luxation of the humerus, 1683

Previous title, replaced October 2020: Apparatus for luxation of the humerus, 17th Century.

Illustration of apparatus for luxation of the humerus showing a structure of a fixing bar and arrangement of pulleys for applying traction. From a review of Michault's: "Les discours de chirurgie, pour l'explication des nouvelles machines pour les os", published in Acta eruditorum, 1683. Related images M0018219

August 1960

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the publication depicted in the glass plate negative

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2022.

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