Surgery


Stapler, set

Klammerungsset n. MICHEL, um 1930 

 

Even "primitive peoples" had developed techniques of wound care. Brazilian Indians used ants with strong pliers to clasp a wound: the heads are torn off the animals as soon as they have bitten the wound edges.


Modern surgery rediscovered this stapling technique and developed it into "serre-fine" and "Kölner Sparklammern". In an emergency, they could cling to wounds without numbing the skin.
a) Presented is a cutlery for suture, free according to Dr. med. Paul MICHEL (Congrès international de médecine 1900, section of surgery) -
The original device was a "pince-revolver", an automaton from which one could shoot 50 agraffes without dropping off.


Most surgeons, however, were more used to working with normal tweezers and therefore preferred to put the MICHEL staples with tweezers; however, you needed a special pair of tweezers with 3 teeth on each side. The box presented here, a metal case supplied by the instrument maker Moitzheim in Luxembourg, originally contained:
a narrow forceps for lifting the adapted wound edges,
a wide tweezers for applying the brackets,
25 wound clips made of pure nickel and
2 check marks to remove the clips.
With special agraffenhebern (after MICHEL or JOLY) the MICHEL'schen Wundspangen were opened and "dug".
b) The single combined tweezers / pliers of the French company DRAPIER presented here are used to set the clamps (right part) and to remove them (left part). In the SIMAL catalog of 1936 we find it as "pince à double usage for poser et retirer les agrafes"
c) Right next to it, a modern, American staple removal forceps of a company "A". Light metal, solid riveting.

 



In the Luxembourg daily press we occasionally find evidence of the use of these (or similar) brackets:
"Schieren, June 3. At the Beer Table A small discussion in a local inn led to quarrels between two guests in the evening, with the farmer Joh. Metz vom Schierenerhof beating his opponent so relentlessly that he needed the doctor Apply some staples to wounds "(Escher Tageblatt, 3.6.1935).


"Dudelange, 14 Nov. When playing in the schoolyard two children collided with such force with their heads that both bore a centimeter-long wound over the eye, which had to be clamped by the doctor" (Obermoselzeitung, 14.11.1936).


"Wiltz 9 May The 12 - year - old son of the inn owner, Mr. Wilmes von der Lann in Niederwiltz, suffered a serious hand injury while chopping up wood and wanted to hold a piece of wood, which another boy was to split The doctor had to use braces "(Luxemburger Wort, 9.5.1940)


"Petingen, fall from the stairs." The pension inspector Mich. D. of the Neustastrasse crashed down the stairs in an inn so unhappily that he suffered a sore wound at the back of his head and lost consciousness Two hours later, the maid found the injured woman and was immediately taken to the hospital for treatment, and the doctor had to use D. several surgical clips "(Escher Tageblatt, 19.12.1941).