Lectures on orthopedic surgery . and at thegroins and chest looseshawls are put aroundin such fashion as notto interfere with theeffects of succussion;and his arms are tobe fastened along hissides to his body, andnot to the ladder,\Mien you have ar-ranged these mattersthus you must hoistup the ladder, eitherto a high tower or tothe gable end of ahouse; but the placewhere you make thesuccussion should befirm and those whoperform the exten-sion should be well in-structed so that theymay let go their holdequally to the sameextent, and suddenly, and that the ladder Fig. 35.—Forced correction of sp
Lectures on orthopedic surgery . and at thegroins and chest looseshawls are put aroundin such fashion as notto interfere with theeffects of succussion;and his arms are tobe fastened along hissides to his body, andnot to the ladder,\Mien you have ar-ranged these mattersthus you must hoistup the ladder, eitherto a high tower or tothe gable end of ahouse; but the placewhere you make thesuccussion should befirm and those whoperform the exten-sion should be well in-structed so that theymay let go their holdequally to the sameextent, and suddenly, and that the ladder Fig. 35.—Forced correction of spiual curvature by?mav npifhpr fnmhlp traction and countertractioD, and direct pres- luay ueitnei tuniDie g^^^.^ ^y lever. From the Florentine edition to the ground on of Galen. Quoted in Biggs Orthopraxy. either side nor they themselves fall forward. But if the ladder be let go from atower, or the mast of a ship fastened to the ground with itscordage, it will be still better, so that the ropes run upon apulley or For the treatment of the gibbosities of spinal cariesby extension Hippocrates recommended that something like an oaken bench of a quadrangular shape isto be laid along at a distance from the wall in which a groove 56 has been previously scooped, which will admit of persons topass around if necessary, and the bench is covered withrobes, or any thing else which is soft, but does not yieldmuch. The patient after being stoved and bathed v^ith hotwater is to be stretched upon the board on his face,the arms being laid along and bound to his body. Next the middle of a thong which is soft, sufficiently broad andlong, and composed of two cross straps of leather, is tobe twice carried along the middle of the patients breast,as near the armpits as possible; then what is over of thethongs at the armpits is to be carried round the shoul-ders and afterwards the ends of the thong are to be fast-ened to a piece of wood, resembling a pestle; they areto be adapted to the l
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