Part 39
When the fracture is complicated with a wound, one need not be troubled
on that account, but pitch-cerate or any of the applications for fresh
wounds is to be applied to the sores; for, in general, they admit
of easy cure, even when there is reason to apprehend that pieces of
bone will come out. The parts, at first,
[p. 236]are to be adjusted fearlessly,
taking care that nothing is omitted, and, subsequently, they are also
to be adjusted with the fingers; more softly, indeed, but still it
must be done; and of all parts of the body the nose is modeled with
the greatest ease. And there is nothing to prevent us from having
recourse to the practice of gluing on the thongs, and drawing the
nose to the opposite side, even if there be a wound or the parts be
inflamed, for these thongs give no pain.