Note (64) — BOOK V.

64. Fibulæ.) The word fibula, in other classical authors is translated by a buckle; which from its connection in such places appears very proper. But upon comparing the several passages in our author, where the use of them is directed, it seems very difficult to give any account of them. The variety of opinions may very well be reduced to two, those of Guido de Cauliaco and Fallopius. The first believed them to be hooks, whose size was adapted to that of the wounded member, curved at both ends in the form of the letter S, that they might be fixed to both lips of the wound. According to Fallopius the fibula was nothing else but the interrupted suture now commonly used in wounds.