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Identifier: interstatemedica1619unse (find matches)
Title: Interstate medical journal
Year: 1909 (1900s)
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Subjects: Medicine
Publisher: St. Louis, : Interstate Medical Journal
Contributing Library: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Historical Medical Library
Digitizing Sponsor: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the National Endowment for the Humanities

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Fig. 28. Reduction of the shoulder with the ladder in the horizontalposition. Operator pulling head of humerus outwards with a thong. MILNE: ANCIENT SURGICAL APPARATUS 135 The patient is to be suspended from a crossbeam by the feet tied to-gether by a strong, soft and broad cord. The feet are to be about four inches or less from each other and abroad and soft leather collar also connected with the crossbeam, is tobe put on above the knees, and the affected leg should be so extendedas to be two inches higher than the other. The head should be about two cubits from the ground and the armshould be stretched along the sides, and bound with something soft. All these preparations should be made while he is lying on his backso that he may be suspended for as short a time as possible. When the patient is suspended a person properly instructed and notweak, having introduced his arm between his thighs is to placehis forearm between the perineum and the dislocated head of the femur,and then, hav

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