The apparatus used by the Greeks and Romans in the setting of fractures and the reduction of dislocations

by John Stewart Milne

Fig. 7. Top view of the same to show the tying together of the two top rods.

Fig. 8. Box splint or “canal” after Scultetus.

Fig. 9. The Glossocomium of Galen, applied for fracture of the thigh. After Vidius.

Fig. 10. Scamnum of Hippocrates after Littré.

Fig. 11. Scamnum of Hippocrates after Vidius. It differs from the description of Hippocrates in having slots instead of grooves, but it is the oldest figure of the instrument.