The Genuine works of Hippocrates v 2 Author:Hippocrates Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ON THE ARTICULATIONS. THE ARGUMENT. The author commences the work with an elaborate dissertation on dislocations at the shoulder-joint, of which he decided... more »ly recognizes only one form, namely, dislocation downward, or into the armpit, but he does not positively deny the possibility of dislocations upward, outward, and forward, only he states that he had never met with any instance of them. He concludes § 1 with some general remarks on this accident. He then describes various modes of reduction:—with the hand, § 2;—with the heel, § 3;—with the shoulder introduced into the patient's armpit, § 4;—with a pestle or pole introduced into the armpit, § 5;—with a ladder, § 6;—or with the machine called the ambe, § 7. In § 8 are contained some remarks on the general subject of luxations, in which place mention is made of the occurrence of this accident in cattle when in a lean condition. In § 8 the after-treatment is accurately laid down. In § 10 some very important and acute remarks are made on the method of avoiding mistakes in treating these dislocations; and in § 11 the surgical treatment in cases which show a great tendency to relapse is minutely treated of. The consequent effects on the limb when the reduction is not accomplished are circumstantially described in § 12. In § 13 is given a description of abruption of the acromion, by which is probably meant dislocation of the clavicle from the acromion, complicated, perhaps, with fracture of the latter. The subject of fracture of the clavicle is next taken up, and it is treated of through §§ 14, 15, 16, where everything relating to the symptoms and treatment of this accident is given with remarkable precision. The subject of luxations and subluxations at the elbow, which had been treated of in the work " On Fractures," is ...« less