CHAP. LI. Of the separation of the greater and lesser Focile.
* 1.1THe Fibula or lesser Focile is fastned and adheres to the Tibia, leg-bone, or greater Focile without any cavity, above at the knee and below at the ankle. But it may be pluckt or drawn aside three manner of ways, that is, forwards, and to each side: this chance happens when in going we take no sure footing, so that we slip with our feet this way and that way as in a slippery place, and so wrest it inwards or outwards; for then the weight of our body lying open upon it, draws the leg, as it were, in sunder, so that the one Focile is dislocated or separated from the other. The same may happen by a fall from an high place, or some grievous and bruising blow: besides also, their appendi∣ces, are sometimes separated from them. For the restoring of all these into their proper places,* 1.2 it is fit they be drawn and forced by the hand of the Surgeon into their seats: then shall they be straitly bound up, putting compresses to that part unto which the Fibula flew; beginning also your ligation at the very luxation, for the fore-mentioned reasons. The Patient shall rest forty days, to wit, as long as shall be sufficient for the strengthening of the ligaments.