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A late 19th century
device for applying skull traction. In more recent
times for cord
compression and neck fracture this would
usually be done through apparatus fixed to the end of
a bed and pressure would be applied constantly through
the application of weights. The interesting
thing about this piece is that it was
for manual traction, which seems less likely to
have been practical.
One suggestion has been that this instrument would
have been used at post mortem, where manipulating the
cranium through the use of a handle does seem more
plausible.
The handles are made from crosshatched ebony and the
piece is signed Codmann and Shurtleff Boston. |
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