CHAP. XIX. Of the Dislocation of the Rumpe.
THe Rumpe oft times is after a sort dislocated inwards by a violent fall upon the buttocks, or a great blow; in this affect the Patient cannot bring his heele to his buttockes, neither, unlesse with much force, bend * 1.1 his knee. Going to stoole is painefull to him, neyther can he sit unlesse in a hollow chaire. That this (as it were) dislocation may bee restored, you must * 1.2 thrust your finger in by the Fundament, even to the place affected, as we have said in a fracture: then must you strongly raise up the bone, and with your other hand at the same time joyne it rightly on the outside with the neighbouring parts; last∣ly it must be strengthened with the formerly mentioned remedies, and kept in its place. Now it will bee recovered about the twentieth day after it is set. During all which time the Patient must not goe to stoole, unlesse sitting upon a hol∣low seat, lest the bone, as yet scarce well recovered, should fall againe out of its place.