1911

Invention of Balkan frame (or beam) by Croatian surgeon Vatroslav Florschutz, widely used in Serbian-Bulgarian War of 1933, and essential fracture wards of WWI. It “comprised single or double longitudinal metal beams placed above a hospital bed and permitted fractured arms and legs, esp. fractures of the femur, to be suspended in traction in a semi-flexed position” (Stepansky II, 75).