Dislocated limbs were a common occurrence in an era when human muscle provided most of the force in everyday life, and Par矇' devoted considerable ingenuity to devising ways of dealing with the problem. Some dislocations were easy to reduce, while others required great force. These straps and belts are the basic set of tools for the job. By careful adjustment of tension and counter-tension, a simple dislocation could be quickly reduced. The 1585 edition of Par矇's Oeuvres (Collected Works) represents the final summary of his life's work. It has over twelve hundred folio pages, with nearly 400 illustrations drawing upon a lifetime of practice. Four editions of the Oeuvres were published during his lifetime, and this is the last and the most complete. Often his descriptions of difficult cases end with the same simple sentence, "I treated him, but God cured him." Ambroise Par矇 (1510 - December 20, 1590) was a French surgeon, anatomist, inventor and one of the fathers of surgery and modern forensic pathology.