CHAP. XXXIV. Of the Dislocation of the Styliformis, or bodkin-like process of the Cubit or Ell.
* 1.1THe process of the Ell called Styloides, being articulated to the wrist by Diarthrosis, by which it is received in a small cavity, is dislocated, and falleth out sometimes inwards, somewhiles out∣wards: The cause usually is the falling of the body from high upon the hands: It is restored, if that you force it into its seat, diligently binde it, and apply thereto very astringent and drying medicins; But yet,* 1.2 though you shall diligently perform all things which may be done in dislocations, yet you shall never so bring it to pass that this bone shall be perfectly restored, and absolutely put into the place where-hence it went: which thing we have read, observed by Hippocrates; when (saith he) the greater bone,* 1.3 to wit, the Ell, is removed from the other, that is, the wand, it is not easily resto∣red to its own nature again; for that, seeing that neither any other common connexion of two bones, which they call Symphisis or union, when it is drawn asunder and destroyed, may be reduced into its former nature, by reason these ligaments wherewith they were formerly contained, and as it were continued, are too violently distended and relaxed, whence it happens, that I have in these cases often observed, that the diligence and care of the Surgeon hath nothing availed.