Hippocrates, De fracturis, ed. Émile Littré, 39

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39. 40. Ἔστι δὲ καὶ τούτων τὰ μὲν πλεῖστα σμικραὶ ἐγκλίσιες,
ἄλλοτε ἐς τὸ πρὸς τῶν πλευρέων μέρος, ἄλλοτε ἐς τὸ ἔξω· οὐ
πᾶν δὲ τὸ ἄρθρον μεταβεβηκὸς, ἀλλὰ, μένον κατὰ τὸ κοῖλον τοῦ ὀστέου τοῦ βραχίονος, ᾗ τὸ τοῦ πήχεος ὀστέον τὸ ὑπερέχον,
ἐξέσχεν. Τὰ μὲν οὖν τοιαῦτα, κἂν τῇ ἢ τῇ ὀλίσθῃ, ῥηΐδιον
ἐμβάλλειν, καὶ ἀπόχρη ἡ κατάτασις ἡ ἐς τὸ ἰθὺ γινομένη κατ᾿
ἰθυωρίην τοῦ βραχίονος, τὸν μὲν κατὰ τὸν καρπὸν τῆς χειρὸς
τείνειν, τὸν δὲ κατὰ τὴν μασχάλην περιβάλλοντα, τὸν δὲ τῇ
ἑτέρῃ πρὸς τὸ ἐξεστεὸς ἄρθρον τὸ θέναρ προσβάλλοντα ὠθέειν,
τῇ δ᾿ ἑτέρῃ ἀντωθέειν προσβάλλοντα ἐγγὺς τῷ ἄρθρῳ.
Ἐνακούει δὲ οὐ βραδέως ἐμβαλλόμενα τὰ τοιαῦτα ὀλισθήματα,
ἢν, πρὶν φλεγμήνῃ, ἐμβάλλῃ τις. Ὀλισθάνει δὲ ὡς ἐπὶ τὸ πουλὺ
μᾶλλον ἐς τὸ ἔσω μέρος, ὀλισθάνει δὲ καὶ ἐς τὸ ἔξω, εὔδηλα
δὲ τῷ σχήματι. Καὶ πολλάκις ἐμπίπτει τὰ τοιαῦτα, καὶ ἄνευ
ἰσχυρῆς κατατάσιος· χρὴ δὲ τῶν ἔσω ὀλισθανόντων, τὸ
μὲν ἄρθρον ἀπωθέειν ἐς τὴν φύσιν, τὸν δὲ πῆχυν ἐς τὸ καταπρηνὲς
μᾶλλον ῥέποντα περιάγειν Τὰ μὲν πλεῖστα ἀγκῶνος
τοιαῦτα ὀλισθήματα.

De fracturis. Hippocrates. ed. Émile Littré. Paris. 1841.

Funding provided by Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Current edition First1KGreek

De fracturis (Greek) (Hippocrates. Oeuvres complètes d'Hippocrate, Vol. 3. Littré, Émile, editor. Paris: Baillière, 1841)

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Περὶ ἀγμῶν Perseus (Hippocrates. Oeuvres complètes d’Hippocrate, Vol. 3. Littré, Émile, editor. Adolf M. Hakkert: Amsterdam, 1961 (printing).) — 39 focus

39.

τὰ δὲ κατὰ τὸν ἀγκῶνα ὀχλωδέστερά ἐστι τῶν κατὰ τὸ γόνυ, καὶ δυσεμβολώτερα καὶ διὰ τὴν φλεγμονὴν καὶ διὰ τὴν φύσιν, ἢν μή τις αὐτίκα ἐμβάλῃ. ὀλισθάνει μὲν γὰρ ἧσσον, ἢ ἐκεῖνα, δυσεμβολώτερα δὲ καὶ δυσθετώτερα, καὶ ἐπιφλεγμαίνει μᾶλλον καὶ ἐπιπωροῦται.

Translations (1)

On Fractures Perseus (Hippocrates, The Genuine Works of Hippocrates, Vol. 2. Adams, Francis, translator. New York: William Wood and Company, 1886.) — 39 focus

[39] For the most part the displacements of these bones are small, sometimes toward the ribs, and sometimes to the outside; and the whole articulation is not displaced, but that part of the humerus remains in place which is articulated with the cavity of the bone of the forearm that has a protuberance ( ulna?). Such dislocations, to whatever side, are easily reduced, and the extension is to be made in the line of the arm, one person making extension at the wrist, and another grasping the armpit, while a third, applying the palm of his hand to the part of the joint which is displaced, pushes it inward, and at the same time makes counterpressure on the opposite side near the joint with the other hand.

Hippocrates De fracturis 39

ed. Émile Littré

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