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does not irritate;skin is to be glued to the parts displaced, which are to be thus. Bandaging
in this case does mischief. The treatment isconsist of flour with manna, or of sulphur with
cerate. You willadjust the fragments, and afterward retain them in placeyour fingers
introduced into the nostrils, and turning the partsplace; then the Carthaginian skin is to be
used. Callius formswhen there is a wound; and the same things are to be done, eventhere
is to be exfoliation of the bones, for this is not of anature. ————————————
——————————————————————-3fractures of the ears, neither
bandages nor cataplasms should be; or, if any bandage be used, it should be put on very
tight;cerate and sulphur should be applied to agglutinate the bandages.matter forms in the
ears, it is found to be more deeply seatedmight be supposed, for all parts that are pulpy,
and consistjuicy flesh, prove deceptious in such a case. But no harm willfrom making an
opening, for the parts are lean, watery, andof mucus. No mention is here made of the
places and circumstancesrender it fatal to make an opening. The cure is soonest
effectedtransfixing the ear with a cautery; but the ear is maimed and diminishedsize, if
burned across. If opened, one of the gentle medicinesflesh wounds should be used as a
dressing. ————————————————————————————————
——-4jaw-bone is often slightly displaced (subluxated?), and is restored; it is dislocated
but rarely, especially in gaping; in fact,bone is never dislocated unless it slips while the
mouth is opened. It slips, however, the more readily from its ligaments being, supple, and
of a yielding nature. The symptoms are: the lowerprotrudes, it is distorted to the side
opposite the dislocation,the patient cannot shut his mouth; when both sides are
dislocated,jaw projects more, the mouth can be less shut, but there is no; this is shown by
the rows of the teeth in the upper andjaw corresponding with one another. If, then, both
sides be, and not immediately reduced, the patient for the mostdies on the tenth day, with
symptoms of continued fever, stupor,coma, for the muscles there induce such effects;
there is disorderthe bowels attended with scanty and unmixed dejection; and the, if any,
are of the same character. The other variety istroublesome. The method of reduction is the
same in both:-Thebeing laid down or seated, the physician is to take hold ofhead, and
grasping both sides of the jaw-bone with both hands,and without, he must perform three
manoeuvres at once,-rectifyposition of the jaw, push it backward, and shut the mouth.
Theshould consist of soothing applications, position, and applyingsuitable bandage to
support the jaw-bone, so as to cooperate withreduction. —————————————
—————————————————————-5bone of the shoulder is dislocated
downward. I have never heardany other mode. The parts put on the appearance of
dislocation, when the flesh about the joint is wasted during consumption,also seems to be
the case with cattle when in a state of leannesswinter. Those persons are most liable to
dislocations who are, slender, and have humidities about their joints without
inflammation,it knits the joints. Those who attempt to reduce and rectify dislocationsoxen,
commit a blunder, as forgetting that the symptoms arise frommanner in which the ox uses
the limb, and that the appearancethe same in a man who is in a similar condition, and
forgettingthat Homer has said, that oxen are most lean at that season.this dislocation, then,
when not reduced, the patient cannot performof those acts which others do, by raising the
arm from the side.have thus stated who are the persons most subject to this
dislocation,how they are affected. In congenital dislocations the nearestare most
shortened, as is the case with persons who are weasel-armed;fore-arm less so, and the