Fingers, compensation and King Canute / Arne Bertelsen ... and Norman Carpenter.

1960

3 pages

Compares the amount of compensation received for the amputation of the various fingers under Canute's law (1016-1035) and under the contemporary Ministry of Pensions schedule

Also notes the names given to the individual fingers and the thumb in Latin and in Anglo-Saxon

"Based upon a paper presented to the Combined Hand Surgery Clubs at the Royal College of Surgeons of England on November 28, 1959"

Includes bibliographic references