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CHAP. XLV. Of restoring the Thigh dislocated outwardly.
THE patient must bee placed groveling upon a table in this kinde of dislocation also, and ligatures as before, cast upon the hip and lower part of the thigh, then extension must be made downewards, and counter-ex∣tension upwards; then presently the head of the bone must bee forced by the hand of the Surgeon into its place. If the hand bee not sufficient for this purpose, our pulley must be used, as the following figure sheweth.
This kind of dislocation is the easilyest restored of all these which happen in the * 1.1 thigh or hip, so that I have divers tmes observed the head of the thigh to have been drawne backe into its cavity by the onely regresse of the extended muscles into themselves towards their originals, somewhiles with a noyse or pop, otherwhiles without, which being done, laying a compresse upon the joynt, you shall perform all other circumstances as before in an internall dislocation.