Hair rope
When hair rope (also pus band or setaceum called) is a surgical treatment method whose adoption is uncertain, and that has been applied from the 16th to the 19th century, especially against eye diseases and epilepsy. The hair rope was also often used in the therapy of severe mental disorders.
A piece of skin on the back of the patient's neck was lifted with a pair of hairline pliers. A hair rope needle with a hair rope, a cord made of horsehair, canvas or the like, was pushed through this. The hair rope stayed under the skin for a few days until pus formed. This suppuration should now contribute to the “drainage of bad juices” from the rest of the body.
With this form of treatment there was a risk of developing a bacterial infection or a fistula .
The idea of purification by pus goes back to humoral pathology . The observation that purulent processes (e.g. an abscess ) begin to heal after the pus has been released led to the idea that the provoked generation and drainage of pus causes a “cleansing process”.
The method of a fontanel is based on the same idea ; H. placing a pea under the skin that has been cut open or opened with a branding iron.
As a rule, the hair rope and fontanel were not attached directly above the diseased region, but away from it. Similar to bloodletting , the effect that it was supposed to produce was called "revulsio" ("upheaval"). The wound drainage that is still used today to drain pus from deep abscesses or fistulas, in which an artificial wound is created directly above the diseased region, through which the pus can drain massively, represents a “derivative” in this system .
literature
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Ambroise Paré (1510-1590)
- La method curative des playes. Paris 1561, p. 229 (digitized version)
- Wundt-Artzney or Artzney-Spiegell of the highly experienced and well-known Mr. Ambrosii Parei ... Fischer, Franckfurt am Mayn 1601, p. 437 (digitized version)
- Joseph-François Malgaigne . Oeuvres complètes d'Ambroise Paré . Baillière, Paris 1840 Volume I, p. 416 (digitized version) Volume II, p. 79–81 (digitized version )
- Fabricius Hildanus (1560-1634). Wund-Arzney . Johannes Beyer, Frankfurt am Main 1652, p. 42: How to go through a harness without a Fewer. (Digitized version)
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Lorenz Heister (1683–1758)
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Surgery . Hoffmann's heirs, Nuremberg 1724,
- P. 402–405: From the fontanels. (Digitized version)
- P. 448–450: From the fontanel on the head / or on the Sutura Coronalis. (Digitized version)
- Pp. 607-608: From the setaceum or hair-string in the nape of the neck. (Digitized version)
- Medicinal, surgical and anatomical perceptions. Johann Christian Koppe, Rostock 1753, p. 70: On the use of the hairline in major headaches, and convulsive twitching or motibus convulsivis. (Digitized version)
- Anatomical-surgical lexicon. Christian Friedrich Voß, Berlin 1753, Sp. 927–929: Setaceum (digitized version )
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Surgery . Hoffmann's heirs, Nuremberg 1724,
- Pierre-François Percy (1754–1825) and JL Maurice Laurent (1784–1854). Séton. In: Dictionnaire des sciences médicales. Volume 51 Panckoucke, Paris 1821, pp. 202–206 (digitized version )
- Carl Ferdinand von Gräfe : Hair rope . In. Carl Ferdinand von Gräfe, Christoph Wilhelm von Hufeland and Dietrich Wilhelm Heinrich Busch : Encyclopaedic dictionary of the medical sciences. Volume 15, Boike, Berlin 1837, pp. 200–205 (digitized version )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ambroise Paré . La method curative des playes & fractures de la teste humaine. Paris 1561, p. 229 (digitized version)
- ↑ MA Jamin. Manuel de petite surgery. Paris 1860, pp. 554-555
- ^ Joseph-François Malgaigne . Oeuvres complètes d'Ambroise Paré . Baillière, Paris 1840, Volume II, p. 81b, Note 1 (digitized version)
- ^ Bangen, Hans: History of the drug therapy of schizophrenia. Berlin 1992, p. 13 ISBN 3-927408-82-4
- ↑ cf. WD Groom: Practical hand and help booklet of minor surgery for apprentices and assistants . 2nd edition, Voigt, Weimar 1850, pp. 77–80 (digitized version )