[p. 232] is the work which anybody
can perform, to rectify it; for the part which protrudes is to be
pushed inward by pressure with the fingers, and the part that inclines
inward is to forced outward by pushing with the fingers from within.
It is after having applied extension to separate the fragments that
this is to be done, for they will thus be more easily restored to
their natural position, than if one should bring them together by
using force. This is proper to be known as applying to all such cases.
When you have set the parts, you must fasten the teeth on both sides
to one another, as formerly directed. The treatment is to be accomplished
with cerate, a few compresses, and bandages. This part, in particular,
requires a short but complex (?) bandaging, for it is nearly cylindrical,
though not exactly so; but the turn of the bandage is to be made,
if the right jaw was dislocated, to the right hand (that is said to
be to the right hand when the right hand conducts the bandaging);
but if the other jaw be the seat of the dislocation, the bandaging
is to be made in the other direction. And if matters be properly adjusted,
and the patient keep quiet, there will be a speedy recovery, and the
teeth will be uninjured; but if not, the recovery will be more protracted,
the teeth will be distorted, will give trouble, and become useless.
Part 35
Of fractures of the nose there are more than one variety, but those
who, without judgment, delight in fine bandagings, do much mischief,
most especially in injuries about the nose. For this is the most complex
of all the forms of bandaging, having most of the turns of the bandage
called "ascia," and rhomboidal intervals and uncovered spaces of the
skin. As has been said, those who practice manipulation without judgment
are fond of meeting with a case of fractured nose, that they may apply
the bandage. For a day or two, then, the physician glories in his
performance, and the patient who has been bandaged is well pleased,
but speedily the patient complains of the incumbrance of the bandage,
and the physician is satisfied, because he has had an opportunity
of showing his skill in applying a complex bandage to the nose. Such
a bandaging does everything the very reverse of what is proper; for,
in the first place, those who have their nose flattened by the fracture,
will clearly have the part rendered
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