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The Strappado, used as public punishment, detail of plate 10 of Les Grandes Misères de la guerre by Jacques Callot, 1633. The strappado, also known as corda, [1] is a form of torture in which the victim's hands are tied behind their back and the victim is suspended by a rope attached to the wrists, typically resulting in dislocated shoulders.
Body suspension means the act of rigging a human body to hang from implements that have been placed through temporary perforations in the skin. [1] A number of health concerns might be associated with the practice, such as excessive bleeding, fainting, fall injuries, and infections. [2] Indian man with hooks in his back at the festival of ...
Step 2: Dry the Bulbs. You can cure hardneck garlic with hang drying, but many growers dry hardneck garlic on drying racks or a DIY drying screen made with a wooden frame, hardware cloth, and some ...
Costochondritis, also known as chest wall pain syndrome or costosternal syndrome, is a benign inflammation of the upper costochondral (rib to cartilage) and sternocostal (cartilage to sternum) joints. 90% of patients are affected in multiple ribs on a single side, typically at the 2nd to 5th ribs. [1]
Designed specifically for use on the arms, this violet-purple moisturizer lifts and firms the appearance of saggy, lax underarm skin for an overall tighter, slimmer-looking arm.
Dry cupping involves the application of a heated cup on the skin of the back, chest, abdomen, or buttocks. [1] The cooling of the air is then thought to create a suction effect. Bamboo and other materials are sometimes used as alternatives to glass cups.
It is a settling of the blood in the lower, or dependent, portion of the body postmortem, causing a purplish red discoloration of the skin. When the heart stops functioning and is no longer agitating the blood, heavy red blood cells sink through the serum by action of gravity.
Skin grafting and flap procedures use the patient’s own healthy soft tissues to heal a wound. Debridement describes the process of surgically removing unhealthy tissue from an area. After an injury, portions of the soft tissue may be able to survive while other parts may be dead.