Prescription for Adjusting and Breaking Injuries is a work on traumatology, also known as "the secret recipe for adjusting and breaking injuries by immortals". Lin Daoren's book in Tang Dynasty was written in Huichang period (84 1 ~ 845). This is the earliest extant monograph on orthopedics and traumatology.
The chair-back reduction method for the treatment of shoulder dislocation attaches importance to the principle of small splint fixation and "dynamic and static combination", which has great influence on the development of injury treatment technology in later generations.
Brief introduction of the author
Lin Daoren, a native of Chang 'an, lived in the middle of the Tang Dynasty. There is no biography of history books, and they were originally Taoist priests, whose real names are unknown, so they were later called "Lin Daozhe" or "Lin Daoren". During the Huichang period of the Tang Dynasty (84 1 ~ 846), the government of the Tang Dynasty implemented the policy of abolishing temples in order to urge monks and nuns to become monks and nuns and engage in production. In his later years, he became a monk, lived in seclusion in Zhongchun Village, Yichun County, Jiangxi Province, and became friends with the villager Peng Cuo. Later, Peng Cuo's son "broke his neck and scratched his arm" and asked him for treatment. People "began to know that people can do it.