[p. 233]still more flat, if pressure above
be applied to it; and further, those cases in which the nose is distorted
to either side, whether at the cartilage or higher up, will evidently
derive no benefit from bandaging above it, but will rather be injured;
for it will not admit of having compresses properly arranged on either
side of the nose, and indeed, persons applying this bandage do not
seek to do this.
Part 36
This bandaging would appear to me to answer best when the skin surrounding
the bone is contused on its ridge near the middle, or if the bone
itself have sustained some injury, but not a great one, in such cases,
redundant callus forms in the nose, and the part becomes a little
too prominent; and yet, even in these cases, the bandaging need not
require much trouble, if, indeed, any bandage be applied at all; for
it is enough if one lay a waxed compress on the contusion, and then
apply the double-headed bandage, thus taking one turn with it. The
best application to such accidents is a small cataplasm of wheaten
flour, washed, and mixed up into a viscid mass. If the flour be made
from good wheat, and if it be glutinous, it should be used alone for
all such cases, but if it be not very glutinous, a little of the manna
of frankincense, well pulverized, is to be moistened with water, and
the flour is to be mixed up with it, or a very little gum may be mixed
in like manner.
Part 37
In those cases in which the fractured portions are depressed and flattened,
if it is depressed in front at the cartilage, something may be introduced
into the nostrils to rectify the parts. If not, all such deformities
may be restored by introducing the fingers into the nostrils, if this
can be managed, but if not, a thick spatula is to be introduced with
the fingers, not to the fore part of the nose, but to the depressed
portion, and the physician is to take hold of the nose externally
on both sides, and at the same time raise it up. And if the fracture
be much in the fore part one may introduce into the nostrils as already
stated, either caddis scraped from a linen towel, or something such
wrapped up in a piece of cloth, or rather stitched in Carthaginian
leather, and moulded into a shape suitable to the place into which
it is to be introduced. But if the fracture be at a greater distance,
it is
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