Interstate medical journal (1909) (14760863096)

Identifier: interstatemedica1619unse (find matches)

Title: Interstate medical journal

Year: 1909 (1900s)

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Subjects: Medicine

Publisher: St. Louis, : Interstate Medical Journal

Contributing Library: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Historical Medical Library

Digitizing Sponsor: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the National Endowment for the Humanities

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wrapped in a soft shawl for thus it will be less slippery. It should be forced between the ribs and the head of the humerus.And if the pestle be short the patient should be seated on something,so that his arm can with difficulty pass over the pestle. But, for the most part, the pestle should be longer, so that the pa-tient, when standing, may be almost suspended by it. And then thearm and forearm should be stretched along the pestle while some personsecures the opposite side of the body by throwing the arms round theneck near the clavicle. Hesiod (Works and Days, 1, 421) says that the length of the culinarypestle was three cubits. From other passages in Hippocrates it would seem that any pestle-like rod may be indicated. The word Celsus uses means a staff. Hippocrates describes several methods of improvising a scamnum. Fig. 29. Reduction of the wrist. The ladder is probably meant tobe lying flat, but in the figure it is shown tilted up on its side in order tobring the parts into view.

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Fig. 30. Reduction of the dislocated astragalus with the ladder in thehorizontal position. MILNE: ANCIENT SURGICAL APPARATUS 137 Any strong couch may be used as the bench, and extension and counter-extension may be produced by poles levered against boards fixed to thefeet of the couch, thongs being attached to the middle of the poles. Or instead of boards attached to the feet of the couch a ladder may beplaced below the couch and the poles levered against the steps of theladder. If along with either of these methods it were desired to extemporizea lever to press down a hump back, this could be done by driving a postinto the ground alongside the couch and making a hole in the post forthe end of the lever to play in. Or the couch could be drawn alongside a wall and a hole made in thewall for the end of the lever. In fracture-dislocation of the foot the extension might be made asfollows: Having fixed in the ground the nave of a wheel or some such object,something soft is to be bound roun

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