Part 5
Those who accomplish the reduction by forcibly bending it round a
pestle, operate in a manner which is nearly natural. But the pestle
should be wrapped in a soft shawl (for thus it will be less slippery),
and it should be forced between the ribs and the head of the humerus.
And if the pestle be short, the patient should be seated upon something,
that his arm can with difficulty pass above the pestle. But for the
most part the pestle
[p. 213] should be longer, so that the patient when standing
may be almost suspended upon the piece of wood. And then the arm and
forearm should be stretched along the pestle, whilst some person secures
the opposite side of the body by throwing his arms round the neck,
near the clavicle.