The contribution of intellectuals to the history of traumatology during the Renaissance: treatment of femoral fracture through François Rabelais’ glossocomion

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• 作者：Francesco Manzini ; Claudio Manzini ; Giancarlo Cesana…
• 关键词：Femural fracture ; Traumatology ; François rabelais ; Renaissance ; History
• 刊名：International Orthopaedics
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：February 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：41
• 期：2
• 页码：429-432
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• 刊物类别：Medicine
• 刊物主题：Orthopedics;
• 出版者：Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• ISSN：1432-5195
• 卷排序：41

文摘

During the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, intellectuals often included clinical cases and medical descriptions in their literary works. These authors appeared to be more interested in internal and infectious diseases rather than in musculoskeletal disorders and orthopaedics. François Rabelais (1490–1553) was one of the most renowned humanists and philologists of the sixteenth century. He was also a physician with an interest in translating ancient texts of medical authors. Rabelais rediscovered a device for treating femoral fracture originally described by the Roman physician Galen and named as glossocomion. Since the original apparatus had some imperfections, Rabelais redesigned and modified it. This new, improved version became a model for new devices for treating femoral fracture, as also reported by the great French surgeon Ambroise Paré. For this contribution, Rabelais deserves major consideration in the history of orthopaedics and traumatology.