Surgery

MAYOR leg splint (2)

MAYOR-ESMARCH leg splint

"An advancement in the field of flexible splints was the wire mesh introduced in 1836 by the Swiss surgeon Mathias Louis MAYOR (1775-1847) as well as the telegraph wire splint by ESMARCH, which is the archetype of our" empty splint.

"The Cramer rail was developed in the 1980s by the Wiesbadener surgeon CRAMER (died 1903) stated "(Mrs. Härtel, Mrs. Loeffler The Association: Textbook of Surgical and Orthopedic Association Treatment, Berlin 1922 P. 74).

The MAYOR splint presented here, like the previous one, comes from the estate of the physician Paul HETTO, who was established in Diekirch in 1925.