How did people before modern surgery fix broken bones?
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I was just at the Mütter Museum in Philadelphia and they had a little section about that.
Apparently in the late 1800s there was debate as to whether broken bones should have a stable wrap left on for weeks (like a modern cast) or should be unwrapped and re-bound every day. So an interesting period where people weren’t quite sure what worked and just tried out both ways until they decided that a longer and more stable wrap seemed to get better results.
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