How did people before modern surgery fix broken bones?
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For uncomplicated fractures, you don’t need surgery even today. You just hold the bone in the proper place and immobilize it with a cast or a splint until it heals on its own. The same was true long ago. More complicated fractures that required surgery just didn’t heal and would leave some degree of immobility, and compound fractures (where the bone sticks through the skin) of limbs would result in amputation.
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