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The description in a French journal in 1775 of cerclage wiring of a humerus has been widely accepted as the first recorded case of internal fixation of a fresh fracture. Retranslation reveals that the operation was not in fact performed, although the subject was of surgical interest at that time.
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P. E. L. Evans (1983) studied this question.
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