De Medicina Digital Hippocrates Collection Table of Contents
A. Cornelii Celsi
De Medicina Prooemium
Liber I
Liber II PROOEMIUM
Liber III
Liber IV
Liber V
Liber VI
Liber VII PROOEMIUM
Liber VIII
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Liber VIII Table of Contents
[p. 580] altera ab inguine, altera a genu intendi ; si validius , melius adducent , qui easdem habenas ad bacula valida deligarint; cumque eorum fustium imas partes oppositae morae obiecerint , superiores ad se utraque manu traxerint . Etiamnum valentius intenditur membrum super scamnum , cui ab utraque parte axes sunt , ad quos habenae illae deligantur ; qui , ut in torcularibus conversi , rumpere quoque , si quis perseveraverit, non solum extendere nervos et musculos possunt . Collocandus autem homo super id scamnum est aut pronus aut supinus aut in latus sic , ut semper ea pars superior sit , in quam os prolapsum est , et ea inferior , a qua recessit . Nervis extensis , si in priorem partem os venit , rotundum aliquid super inguen ponendum , subitoque super id genu adducendum est eodem modo eademque de causa, qua idem in brachio fit (16.3): protinusque , si conplicari femur potest , intus est . In ceteris vero casibus , ubi ossa per vim paulum inter se recesserunt , medicus debet id , quod eminet , retro cogere ; minister contra inde coxam propellere . Reposito osse , nihil aliud novi curatio requirit , quam ut diutius is in lecto detineatur , ne , si motum adhuc nervis laxioribus femur fuerit , rursus erumpat .
21 Genu vero et in exteriorem et interiorem et in posteriorem partem excidere notissimum est . Inpriorem non prolabi plerique scripserunt ; potestque id vero proximum esse , cum inde opposita patella
