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How you shall use a Fraction, otherwise called a broken bone.

If the leg or arm be broken above the knee or the elbow, then take running water, as hot as you can suffer it, so that it seeth not; and if it be over hot, then take a quantity of water that is cold, and put there∣to, so that the Patient may suffer it, then take a clean linnen cloth, and

put it into the hot water, and then bathe the broken place with the cloth and the hot water together, till the flesh be hot under your hands, and change the colour into red; then take a cleane linnen cloth and dry the place that is hurt; then take heed how you set the bone right. You must lay him right upon his back in his bed where he shall rest; if the leg be broken beneath the knee, then let a man take the foot and the heel in his hand, and strain them right out, so that the knee and the half of his leg, the ankle and the two great toes, and both his heels be right set, every joint with the other, then it must needs be sure set.

Then must you make a Plaister of your Salve, and lay it upon the place that is hurt, as close as you can; then you must take a lin∣nen Roller of half a quarter broad, and Roll the place that is hurt three or four times about with the Roller, as close as you can; and then set on the Splints, as hereafter in the next leaf by the signs fol∣lowing: and these suffice both for legs and armes.