The workes of that famous chirurgion Ambrose Parey translated out of Latine and compared with the French. by Th: Johnson

CHAP. IX. How to set the Jaw dislocated forwards on both sides.

FIrst of all the Patient must bee placed upon the ground, or some low seat with his face upwards, and his head must be firmely held by your servant, * 1.1 that so it may be the more immoveable: then the Surgeon shall put both his thumbs, wrapped in clothes (left hee hurt them by rubbing them upon the Patients teeth, as also to keep them from slipping) into the Patients mouth, and presse with them the larger teeth of the luxated Jaw, but put his other fingers with∣out under his chin, & so lift up the whole Jaw with them. But if the operation cannot be thus done, for that the mouth on the inside is so shut and closed that the thumbs * 1.2 cannot bee put thereinto, then must you thrust in woodden wedges made of soft wood, as hazle or firre, being cut square, and of some fingers thicknesse. These shall bee wedged in on each side above the grinders; then cast a ligature under his chin, whose ends your servant shall hold in his hands, and setting his knees upon the Pa∣tients shoulders, shall pull them upwards; then at the same time the Surgeon shall

presse downwards the woodden wedges. The Jaw-bones thus restored, shalbe kept so by convenient ligation, and dressed with medicines, as it is fitting; and in the meane space you must forbid the Patient to speake, or needlesly to open his mouth. Wherefore he must abstaine from hard meats, and such as require much chewing, * 1.3 untill his paine be quite passed, and use only spoone-meats, as Barley-creames, po∣nadoes, jellies, cullasses, brothes, and the like.

Notes

• * 1.1

  The first maner of setting a jaw-bone.
• * 1.2

  Another.
• * 1.3

  Dict.