Hippocrates, De fracturis, ed. Émile Littré, 43

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43. Ἢν δὲ ἐς τοὐπίσω βραχίων ἐκπέσῃ (ὀλιγάκις δὲ τοῦτο
γίνεται, ἐπωδυνώτατόν τε τοῦτο πάντων καὶ πυρετωδέστατον
ξυνεχέων πυρετῶν καὶ ἀκρητοχόλων, θανατωδέων καὶ ὀλιγημέρων),
οἱ τοιοῦτοι ἐκτανύειν οὐ δύνανται. Ἢν μὲν οὖν αὐτίκα παρατύχης,
βιάσασθαι χρὴ ἐκτανύσαντα τὸν ἀγκῶνα, καὶ αὐτομάτως
ἐμπίπτει. Ἢν δέ σε φθάσῃ πυρετήνας, οὐκ ἔτι χρὴ ἔμβάλλειν·
κατατείνειε γὰρ ἂν ἡ ὀδύνη ἀναγκαζομένου. Ὡς δ᾿
ἐν κεφαλαίῳ εἰρῆσθαι, οὐδ᾿ ἄλλο χρὴ ἄρθρον πυρεταίνοντι ἐμβάλλειν,
ἥκιστα δὲ ἀγκῶνα.

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).) — 43 focus

43.

ἢν δὲ ἐς τοὐπίσω βραχίων ἐκπέσῃ (ὀλιγάκις δὲ τοῦτο γίνεται, ἐπωδυνώτατόν τε τοῦτο πάντων καὶ πυρετωδέστατον ξυνεχέων πυρετῶν καὶ ἀκρητοχόλων, θανατωδέων καὶ ὀλιγημέρων), οἱ τοιοῦτοι ἐκτανύειν οὐ δύνανται. ἢν μὲν οὖν αὐτίκα παρατύχης, βιάσασθαι χρὴ ἐκτανύσαντα τὸν ἀγκῶνα, καὶ αὐτομάτως ἐμπίπτει. ἢν δέ σε φθάσῃ πυρετήνας, οὐκ ἔτι χρὴ ἔμβάλλειν· κατατείνειε γὰρ ἂν ἡ ὀδύνη ἀναγκαζομένου. ὡς δʼ ἐν κεφαλαίῳ εἰρῆσθαι, οὐδʼ ἄλλο χρὴ ἄρθρον πυρεταίνοντι ἐμβάλλειν, ἥκιστα δὲ ἀγκῶνα.

Translations (1)

On Fractures Perseus (Hippocrates, The Genuine Works of Hippocrates, Vol. 2. Adams, Francis, translator. New York: William Wood and Company, 1886.) — 43 focus

[43] But if the arm be dislocated backward (but this very rarely happens, and it is the most painful of all, and the most subject to bilious fevers of the continual type, which prove fatal in the course of a few days), in such a case the patient cannot extend the arm. If you are quickly present, by forcible extension the parts may return to their place of their own accord; but if fever have previously come on, you must no longer attempt reduction, for the pain will be rendered more intense by any such violent attempt. In a word, no joint whatever should be reduced during the prevalence of fever, and least of all the elbow-joint.

Hippocrates De fracturis 43

ed. Émile Littré

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