[p. 183] the other remedies which
are applicable when the fever is not of a continual type; but if continual
fever be present, we must not give strong medicines, but enjoin abstinence
from solid food and soups, and give water for drink, and not allow
wine but oxyglyky (a composition from vinegar and honey?). But if
the case be not going to get worse, the ecchymosed and livid parts,
and those surrounding them become greenish and not hard; for this
is a satisfactory proof in all cases of ecchymosis, that they are
not to get worse; but when lividity is complicated with hardness,
there is danger that the part may become blackened. And we must so
manage the foot as that it may be generally raised a little higher
than the rest of the body. Such a patient will get well in sixty days
if he keep quiet.
Part 12
The leg consists of two bones, of which the one is much more slender
than the other at one part, but not much more slender at another.
These are connected together at the foot, and form a common epiphysis,
but they are not united together along the line of the leg; and at
the thigh they are united together and form an epiphysis, and this
epiphysis has a diaphysis; but the other bone in a line with the little
toe is a little longer. Such is the nature of the bones of the leg.
Part 13
Sometimes the bones connected with the foot are displaced, sometimes
both bones with their epiphysis; sometimes the whole epiphysis is
slightly moved, and sometimes the other bone. These cases are less
troublesome than the same accidents at the wrist, if the patients
will have resolution to give them rest. The mode of treatment is the
same as that of the other, for the reduction is to be made, as of
the other, by means of extension, but greater force is required, as
the parts of the body concerned are stronger in this case. But, for
the most part, two men will be sufficient, by making extension in
opposite directions, but, not withstanding, if they are not sufficiently
strong, it is easy to make more powerful extension in the following
way: having fixed in the ground either the nave of a wheel, or any
such object, something soft is to be bound round the foot, and then
some broad thongs of ox-skin being brought round it, the heads of
the thongs are to be fastened to a pestle or any other piece of wood,
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