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[p. 574] per duos manibus, interdum etiam habenam etiam habenis adiectis, satis est; deinde rotundum aliquid a lacerti parte ponendum est, et super id repente cubitus ad umerum inpellendus est. At in aliis casibus commodissimum est eadem ratione brachium extendere, quae fracto cubito supra (10.4) posita est, et tum ossa reponere. Reliqua eadem curatio est, quae in omnibus: celerius tantum et saepius id resolvendum est, multa magis aqua calida fovendum, diutius ex oleo et nitro ac sale perfricandum. In cubito enim celerius quam in ullo alio articulo, sive extra remansit sive intus revertit, callus circumdatur: isque si per quietem increvit, flexus illius postea prohibet.
17 Manus quoque in omnes quattuor partes prolabitur. Si in posteriorem partem excidit, porrigi digiti non possunt; si in priorem, non inclinantur; si in alterutrum latus, manus in contrarium id est aut ad pollicem aut ad minimum digitum convertitur. Reponi non difficillime potest. Super durum locum et renitentem ex altera parte intendi manus, altera brachium debet sic, ut prona sit, si in posteriorem partem os excidit; supina, si in priorem; si in interiorem exterioremve, in latus. Ubi satis nervi diducti sunt, os, quod in alterutrum latus procidit, manibus in contrarium repellendum est. At is, quae in priorem posterio-
De Medicina. Celsus. W. G. Spencer. Cambridge, Massachusetts. Harvard University Press. 1971 (Republication of the 1935 edition).
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