SECT. CXXII.—ON DISLOCATION COMPLICATED WITH FRACTURE.
If a dislocation be attended with fracture without a wound we must apply the common extension, and replacement by the hands, as described for simple fractures. But if complicated with a wound, we must apply the suitable treatment from what has been said of fractures with a wound, and dislocations in particular.
Commentary. Haly Abbas says that when a wound, a fracture, and a dislocation are combined in one case, each is to be treated upon general principles.
Albucasis directs us to remove any spiculæ of bone which may protrude in such cases. He exhorts the surgeon to act cautiously but confidently, as such conduct will prove most pleasing in the sight of his Creator, and redound to his own glory.
END OF VOL. II.
C. AND J. ADLARD, PRINTERS,
BARTHOLOMEW CLOSE.