Two Medieval Medical Reconstructions

Wordpackage 3 and 5

Wiel A.M.A. van der Mark

Archeon/The Netherlands

January 12 2013

About Archeon• 250.000 visitors per

year• 43 accurate

reconstructions• Prehistoric times• Roman era• Middle ages• Based on

archeological finds

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Jan Yperman• Flemish surgeon• Born in the later

part of the 13 century

• Pupil of Lanfranc in Paris

• Writer of Cyrurgia and Medicina

• Cyrurgia is written between 1310 and 1350

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Drawings• Two drawings in

Ypermans book• A good surgeon but

a bad drawer• Instrument to

attack the toothworm

• Splint bandage to treat a femur fracture

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The toothworm

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Neigbour Jan suffers heavy toothaghe

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The hot needle is stuck in the poisson Conium maculatum

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The pin is placed on the hole in the tooth

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The hot needle is inserted trough the pipe in the the hole

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To extract the tooth the gum has to be cutAfter the cutting the surgeon applys powder on the tooth every day during 30 days

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After a month the tooth is losen and can be extracted

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The dental forceps and bleeding bowl

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Preliminary conclusions

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Femur fracture

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Linnen bandages are used to protect the leg

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Felt, sticks and ropes

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The bandage is tightened

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The sticks of elder (Sambucus) are fixated

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Immobilisation with a…..

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Stay in bed for 12 weeks

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Preliminary conclusions

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