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On the Surgery

By Hippocrates
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On the Surgery

By Hippocrates

Written 400 B.C.E

Translated by Francis Adams

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The extension should be most powerful when the largest and thickest bones, or when both are broken; next when the under-bone, and least of all, when the upper. When immoderate, it is injurious, except in the case of children. The limb should be a little elevated. The model by which we judge if the part be properly set is the sound part of the same name, or the part which is its pair.


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