SECT. XXVI.—ON MAIMED PARTS.
When the ears or the lips have been mutilated, we restore them by first dissecting the skin below, and afterwards bringing together the lips of the wounds; then removing the callous parts, and afterwards sewing and glueing them together.
Commentary. This section is taken from Galen. (Meth. Med. xiv.) See, also, the ‘Isagoge.’
Celsus’s observations are too minute and lengthy for our limits. Suffice it to say, that he directs the edges to be pared, and then united with sutures. (vii, 9.)
Rhases’ directions for the treatment of mutilated ears and noses are to the same effect as our author’s. (Cont. xiv.) Similar ones are given by Albucasis. He directs us to make the suture either with needles, as in gastroraphe, or with a thread. (Chirurg. ii, 26.)
Celsus has been supposed, but, as we think, incorrectly, to touch on the operation for the hare-lip. (vii, 10, 6.) See Sprengel (Hist. de la Méd.)