Only the most difficult dislocation cases would have required this apparatus. Presumably made of wood, it was infinitely adjustable, letting the surgeon utilize the mechanical advantage of lever and fulcrum to the fullest. The seated patient does not look particularly comfortable, but the treatment is clearly preferable to living with a dislocated shoulder. 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