The body and its ailments: a handbook of familiar directions for care and medical aid in the more usual complaints and injuries . t, puts his foot uponit, between the chest and the arm, usingthe right foot if the right shoulder bedislocated, and the left if the left then grasps the patients wrist withboth hands, and pulls the arm downsteadily. At the same time he tells thepatient to make some little change in hisposition, and thus inducing him to callsome other muscles into action, theresistance to the reduction, which themuscles of the dislocated shoulder hadbeen previously offeri
The body and its ailments: a handbook of familiar directions for care and medical aid in the more usual complaints and injuries . t, puts his foot uponit, between the chest and the arm, usingthe right foot if the right shoulder bedislocated, and the left if the left then grasps the patients wrist withboth hands, and pulls the arm downsteadily. At the same time he tells thepatient to make some little change in hisposition, and thus inducing him to callsome other muscles into action, theresistance to the reduction, which themuscles of the dislocated shoulder hadbeen previously offering, is for a momentsuspended, and at that moment the opera-tor pulls a little more vigorously, andgenerally the bone immediately returns toits socket with a more or less loud snap. A person who has repeat-edly dislocated his shoulder,may, if he have courage tobear a little pain for a fewminutes, even manage, him-self, to reduce it, if the acci-dent have happened whilst heis out in the fields, and therebe a five-barred gate at he has to do is to get hisarm over the top rail, andthen, having grasped the low- Fig. Reducing an Arm out ofJoint. Fig. 80.
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