TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1990//
TI  - Doctor Georg Handell and the knife swallower of Halle
JO  - Surgery, gynecology and obstetrics
A1  - Miller, J. Mitchell
SP  - 175
EP  - 176
VL  - 170
IS  - 2
N2  - Handell was presented with a most difficult therapeutic problem when he saw Rudloff. Laparotomy was being done for the suturing of intestinal wounds incurred in battle during the last part of the 17th century but the report by von Dreyhaupt does not mention operative removal of the knife as a method of treatment. If Handell knew this information, he may have thought that the risk of an operation to remove a knife which had been in place for a prolonged period of time was prohibitive.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0039-6087
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -