Brace for a damaged tendon
Date
1754
Creator
Unknown, Engraver
Object type
Library reference
R62588
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 215mm
width (print): 128mm
width (print): 128mm
Subject
Description
Medical illustrations, showing the components and application of a slipper and brace to heal the Achilles tendon, designed by Alexander Monro. With an additional, unrelated illustration (figure 10) of a reindeer and sled.
The accompanying article gives an account of the injury that befell Monro, and his self-treatment: ‘When my tendon was torn, it crack’d as loud as if I had suddenly broke a nut under my heel; and I had a sensation as if the heel of my shoe had struck a hole in the floor…
Plate illustrating the paper: ‘An account of a compleat cure of a fracture of the Tendo Achillis, which happened to Mr. Alexander Monro, F.R.S. written by himself’. The Gentleman’s Magazine, and historical chronicle…[edited] by Sylvanus Urban, v.24, (1754) pp.262-265.
Inscribed above: ‘Gent. Mag. p.264. June 1754’.
Alexander Monro, primus (1697-1767) British surgeon and anatomist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1723.
The accompanying article gives an account of the injury that befell Monro, and his self-treatment: ‘When my tendon was torn, it crack’d as loud as if I had suddenly broke a nut under my heel; and I had a sensation as if the heel of my shoe had struck a hole in the floor…
Plate illustrating the paper: ‘An account of a compleat cure of a fracture of the Tendo Achillis, which happened to Mr. Alexander Monro, F.R.S. written by himself’. The Gentleman’s Magazine, and historical chronicle…[edited] by Sylvanus Urban, v.24, (1754) pp.262-265.
Inscribed above: ‘Gent. Mag. p.264. June 1754’.
Alexander Monro, primus (1697-1767) British surgeon and anatomist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1723.
Related fellows
Alexander Monro (1697 - 1767, British) , Surgeon
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