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In some developing countries, traditional bone-setters are popular and can be the only address for treatment of bone-related injuries. Most often it will be the case that there is a shortage of orthopedic doctors and surgeons in the country and so the two practitioners coexist in the same setting.
Sarah "Crazy Sally" Mapp (baptised 1706 – 1737) was an English lay bonesetter, who gained fame both by performing impressive bone-setting acts in Epsom and London, and by being a woman in a male-dominated profession. [1] Bone-setting was a medical practice used to manipulate and fix musculoskeletal injuries using manual force. [2]
Hugh Owen Thomas was the great-grandson of a young boy who had been shipwrecked on Anglesey (Ynys Môn) between 1743 and 1745 with his brother. One of the young brothers died a few days later but the survivor was given the name Evan Thomas by the family that adopted and raised him, he established a family tradition of bone-setting.
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The earliest known medical text, the Edwin Smith papyrus of 1552 BC, describes the Ancient Egyptian treatment of bone-related injuries. These early bone-setters would treat fractures with wooden splints wrapped in bandages or made a cast around the injury out of a plaster-like mixture. It is not known whether they performed amputations as well. [7]
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Die da (Chinese: 跌打; pinyin: diē dǎ; Jyutping: dit 3 daa 2; lit. 'fall [and] hit') or dit da is a traditional Chinese medicine discipline of used to treating trauma and injuries such as bone fractures, sprains, and bruises. Methods including bone-setting and occasional use of topical preparations such as the dit da jow.