CHAP. XVI. How to restore the Spine outwardly dislocated.
THe vertebrae outwardly dislocated, when as they stand bunching forth, then it is fit to lay and stretch forth the Patient upon a table, * 1.1 with his face downe-wards, and straitly to binde him about with towels under the arm-pits, & about the flanks and thighes. And then to draw and extend, as much as we can, upwards and downe-wards, yet without violence: for unlesse such extension be made, restitution is not to be hoped for, by reason of the processes and hollowed cavities of the ver∣tebrae, wherby, for the faster knitting, they mutually receive each other. Then must you lye with your hands upon the extuberancie, and force in the prominent verte∣brae. But if it cannot be thus restored, then will it bee convenient to wrap two pieces * 1.2 of wood, of foure fingers long, and one thick, more or lesse, in linnen clothes, and so to apply one on each side of the dislocated vertebrae, and so with your hands to presse them against the bunching forth vertebrae, untill you force them backe into their seats, just after the manner you see it here delineated.