Girolamo Fabrici d'Acquapendente and the Oplomochlion: The Several Applications of an Effective Rehabilitation Tool

Girolamo Fabrici d'Acquapendente (1533-1619) was an Italian anatomist, surgeon and physiologist and a protagonist of the scientific revolution of the Renaissance. He made anatomy a scientific discipline and is justly considered a precursor of modern orthopaedics. He invented and used several ex...

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Published in:The American journal of the medical sciences 2020-01, Vol.359 (1), p.1-7
Main Authors: Biz, Carlo, Brunati, Alessandro, Belluzzi, Elisa, Ruggieri, Pietro, Masiero, Stefano, Rippa Bonati, Maurizio
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Anatomy - history
congenital-acquired deformities
d'Acquapendente
Equipment and Supplies - history
fractures
Fractures, Bone - history
Fractures, Bone - therapy
Girolamo Fabrici d'Acquapendente
History, 16th Century
History, 17th Century
Humans
Italy
Limb Deformities, Congenital - history
Limb Deformities, Congenital - therapy
Oplomochlion
orthoses
Paintings - history
Rehabilitation - history
Rehabilitation - instrumentation
Renaissance
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Summary:Girolamo Fabrici d'Acquapendente (1533-1619) was an Italian anatomist, surgeon and physiologist and a protagonist of the scientific revolution of the Renaissance. He made anatomy a scientific discipline and is justly considered a precursor of modern orthopaedics. He invented and used several external corrective devices for the treatment of congenital and acquired deformities of the limbs and spinal column, especially those following tubercular infection and rickets, torticollis, vertebral caries kyphosis, scoliosis, and rachitic deformities of the leg, but also congenital dislocation of the hip and congenital club-foot. He ascribed the pathogenesis of the equinovarus supinated foot to the position taken by the foot of the fetus during intrauterine life. The Oplomochlion, shown in the Operationes chirurgicae and attributed to Fabrici, is actually a collection of very diverse orthotic, prosthetic and surgical metal instruments invented by Fabrici and arranged with a demonstrative purpose and a topographic criterion, as if on an exhibition dummy.
ISSN:0002-9629
1538-2990
DOI:10.1016/j.amjms.2019.10.007