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Part 23

Dislocations backward are to be rectified by the palms of the hands, along with sudden extension; the two acts are to be performed together, as in other cases of the kind. But in dislocation[p. 227] forward the arm is to be bent around a ball of cloth of proper size, and at the same time replaced.

The Genuine Works of Hippocrates. Hippocrates. Charles Darwin Adams. New York. Dover. 1868.

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