Les bandages herniaires modernes : apports d’un nouvel exemple provenant du cimetière paroissial de Gradignan (Gironde)

• Published in: Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d’Anthropologie de Paris Vol. 35; no. 1
• Main Authors: Bouffiès, Camille, Réveillas, Hélène, Balboa-Pont, Alejandra
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Société d'Anthropologie de Paris 01.02.2023
• Subjects: hernia truss; inguinal hernia; medical device; modern period; parish cemetery

A hernia truss dating from the 17th to the first half of the 19th century, discovered inside a grave in the parish cemetery of Gradignan (Gironde, SW France), adds to the small corpus of similar modern archaeological examples of this type of medical device uncovered in France to date. The deceased w...