Citation

Herrmann G, Holck P, Wilhelm H. Anthropol. Anz. 2002; 60(3): 309-319.

Vernacular Title

Ein schwerer Verkehrsunfall--vor 250 Jahren. Eine medizinhistorische Darstellung.

Affiliation

Kreiskrankenhaus Grünstadt, Chirurgische Abteilung, Grünstadt/Pfalz.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2002, E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung)

DOI

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PMID

12378797

Abstract

During a scientific examination in July 1999 both crypts below the St. Martin's Church in Grünstadt, Germany, were opened and 9 coffins from the county family of Leiningen examined. This paper is concentrating on one of these persons: Georg Hermann (1679-1751), count of Leiningen-Westerburg-Altleiningen, who gave during the 18. century the city its barock character. He was also responsible for the rebuilding of the church. His skeleton revealed interesting pathological changes. Few years before his death the count had the accident to get run over by a heavy wagon which crushed the distal part of his legs. The fractures healed, but gave him an ancylotic and shortened left leg, which must have caused him a lot of suffering in his last years.

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