Elevator
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As an elevator (also elevator, Latin for "lifter", to elevare " to raise ") are various surgical instruments that are generally used to raise or lower something. Elevators are used to straighten indented bone parts, to straighten the uterus or to lift off the periosteum . Today this is mostly used to describe flat, lever-like instruments similar to a raspatory , but which, in contrast, are usually blunt-edged.
In the 16th and 17th centuries, more complicated elevators were used, which were used to raise the dented bone pieces of the skull again. These devices consisted of a frame with two or three feet to rest on the skull and a threaded rod that was screwed into the dented bone parts and then lifted by a wing screw, similar to modern corkscrews. The rifles of that time fired bullets that were much larger and slower than modern projectiles, so that it often happened with head hits that the skull was only dented.
literature
- Otto Dornblüth: Clinical Dictionary . 1927 [1]
- Roche Lexicon Medicine. 5th edition 2003