Apply the waxed bandages and compresses in this position.
The Pestle. Of reduction of the shoulder by means of the pestle,—an article for the preparation of food to be found in every Greek home,—Hippocrates says:
“Those who accomplish the reduction by forcibly bending it over a pestle operate in a manner which is nearly natural. The pestle should be wrapped in a soft shawl for thus it will be less slippery.
“It should be forced between the ribs and the head of the humerus. And if the pestle be short the patient should be seated on something, so that his arm can with difficulty pass over the pestle.
“But, for the most part, the pestle should be longer, so that the patient, when standing, may be almost suspended by it. And then the arm and forearm should be stretched along the pestle while some person secures the opposite side of the body by throwing the arms round the neck near the clavicle.”
Hesiod (Works and Days, 1, 421) says that the length of the culinary pestle was three cubits.
Fig. 26. Reduction of the ulna.
