The Oplomochlion was the manikin demonstrating the mechanical principles to be observed in making and fitting artificial limbs, engraved in the famous Opera chirurgica (1617) by Girolamo Fabrizi d’Acquapendente1.
A very accurate iron reconstruction of the Oplomochlion can be admired in the Museo di Storia della Medicina in Rome (Viale dell’Università, 47/a), as an evocative display of seventeenth-century orthopaedic prosthetics’ state of the art.
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