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TO the uniting of every fracture is required foure things, first the joyning or putting to∣gether of the broken bones into their proper place: Secondly, to keep and conserve them so placed without motion: The third is to conglutinate and joyne together the parts of the broken bone by ingendring of Callus: Fourthly to correct those
accidents which follow the fractures of bones: first to unite the fractured bones, if the member where the bone is fractured doth extend it selfe and stand upwards, & pricketh, shewing an inequality when it is touched: these be sure signs that the bone bro∣ken is out of his natural place; wherfore the mēber is decently to be extended, & that part of the bone that is depressed to be gently lifted up, and that which standeth upward to be put downe, untill the ends of the fractured bones do meet, and bee united, and brought to their naturall proper place; but it is not possible this can be done without some force and strength; so that if the member be small, and of no great strength, as the finger or other like member, one man may well ex∣tend it, and stretch it out, by applying one hand on the one part, and the other hand on the o∣ther, untill both ends of the bone fractured doe meet and joyne together: but if the member be great, having strong nerves, and tendons, then one man is not sufficient, and you must diligently take heed, that the member be not too immoderately extended or drawne out, for that doth bring vehe∣ment paine, and consequently Feavers, Convul∣sions, Palsey, and such diseases, and oftentimes by this means the Fiberes and threads in the heads of the muscles be broken: therefore let one man lay his hands on the member above the fracture, and the other on the nether part of the member
under the fractured bone, so stretch and extend the member, till both parts of the bone do meet, then forme it together, till you bring it to its na∣turall forme and figure, and when the bone is re∣posed in his place, then shall the Patient feel ease of his paine.