Orthopaedics, Bandages
and Protheses
(Script No. 6)
- MN.: 24.286: Prototype of a medieval hand,
prothesis of the forearm. Such protheses were
more "cosmetic" than practical. Only later the
choke arm was developed.
- MN.: 27.919: Working arm, forearm prothesis with
additional devices as working arm - grasping
pincers and a rotating hook. Additional devices can be
exchanged as needed and can be individually produced for
special needs.
- Clubfoot exhibit as a wet preparation,
and care by appropriate shoes as well as protheses
for retression and correction.
- MN.: 27.568: In the window case please look at a pair
of Chinese lady shoes dating from times when
noble Chinese ladies kept their feet small by bandages
(19th century, a Chinese woman of about 39 years). Also
pictures and x-rays of the feet.
- MN.: 22.585: Apparatus of leather consisting of
three pieces with lower leg shell and foot sandal with
probably provisionary thigh splint and
mounting on the left side.
- Paralytic apparatus: Pelvic basket for
hemilateral circle of the right side of the thigh.
- In the next room (central show case) you can view a sample-bag
of a prosthetist, England, about 1900.
- MN.: 28.346: Apparatus consisting of three pieces
with movable shoe-tree for right and left legs.
- Below-knee stilt, left: also used at the
theatre.
- Lent by Otto BOCK enterprises: Sports prothesis
for lower limbs and a myoelectric prothesis of
the arm. This prothesis uses the potential
muscle work of the remaining muscle by two contact
points.
- MN.: 22.599: Supporting and extending corset with
plastic pelvic basket and head-rest.
- A wet preparation of spinal tuberculosis
is exhibited. You see tuberculous changes and fractures
of the vertebral arches caused by tuberculosis. In former
times patients had to be cared for by using supporting
corsets or plastic braces.
- In the next room you can see inner protheses
- artificial joints made from metal, porcelain, plastic,
and other synthetic materials.
Please pay attention to the "Bulletins
of the Federal Pathologic-Anatomical Museum" edition 1/91
for your personal use.