'Ambe of Hippocrates': contraption for repairing dislocated shoulders mb-code 00324030 Jimmy Murphy in Duesenberg racing

Jimmy Murphy in Duesenberg racing car

9th February 1974

rather to that gentleman's surprise

View of a cottage in Hyde Park in which equipment was kept for the recovery of drowned people

'Ambe of Hippocrates': contraption for repairing dislocated shoulders mb-code 00324030 Jimmy Murphy in Duesenberg racingIllustration of the 'Ambe of Hippocrates', described a most 'ancient and famous' contraption. It was designed for correcting luxated (dislocated) shoulders arms. This is a 'new Ambe' modified and improved by Le Cat and presented to the Royal Society. The lever at C has the injured arm rest upon it, whilst the vertical piece of wood rests alongside the patient's body the two pieces joining and forming a hinge in the patient's armpit. The patient is