A system of surgery / Benjamin Bell . Luxations of the Femur Ch. XL. which it pafled out. But where the limbis only pulled downward in the ufualway, the head of the bone will be forcedagainfl the projecting brim of the focketif the diflocation is upward : or it willbe drawn to a ftill greater diftance fromthe joint where the bone is diilocatedeither directly downward, or lodged inthe foramen ovale in the upper and in^ner part of the thigh. Wherever thehead of the bone may be lodged, itmould be completely raifed above anyprojecting part of the contiguous bonesbefore any other attempt is made fo
A system of surgery / Benjamin Bell . Luxations of the Femur Ch. XL. which it pafled out. But where the limbis only pulled downward in the ufualway, the head of the bone will be forcedagainfl the projecting brim of the focketif the diflocation is upward : or it willbe drawn to a ftill greater diftance fromthe joint where the bone is diilocatedeither directly downward, or lodged inthe foramen ovale in the upper and in^ner part of the thigh. Wherever thehead of the bone may be lodged, itmould be completely raifed above anyprojecting part of the contiguous bonesbefore any other attempt is made for re-ducing it. As this will remove the prin-cipal impediment to the reduction, ifthe mufcles of the limb be at the fametime relaxed it will eafily be drawn intothe focket when the diflocation is up-ward, or pufhed into it where the heaplof the bone is already beneath it. In the moil frequent variety of thisluxation, where the head of the bone ispufhed downward and forward, I havefucceeded in the following manner: The :.
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