The _Bunch_ is nothing else but an exterior Luxation of the _Vertebra_'s, and for the Cure thereof, it wou'd be requisite to keep Emollients for a long time upon the _Vertebra_'s, to loosen the Ligaments, and to wear Iron-Bodice; which in compressing the _Vertebra_'s by little and little, might perhaps drive 'em back into their Natural Place. * * * * * {303} CHAP. VII. _Of the Luxation of the Ribs._ The Ribs are luxated either on the outside, or on the inside: If they be dislocated on the inside, a Cavity is perceiv'd near the _Vertebra_'s, the Patient drawing his Breath with Pain, and not being able to bend his Body. When the Luxation is on the outside, and happens in the upper Ribs, the Patient's Hands are to be hoisted upon the top of a Door, to raise up the Ribs, whilst the Surgeon presseth the Prominence of the Rib to restore it to its place. When the lower Ribs are luxated, the Patient must be oblig'd to stoop, laying his Hands upon his Knees, and the Prominence of the Bone is to be thrust back. If a Rib be luxated on the inside, an Incision is to be made to draw it out with the Fingers. _The Dressing and Bandage_ Are the same with those that are us'd in the Fracture of the Ribs. * * * * * {304} CHAP. VIII. _Of the Sinking of the _Xiphoides_, or Sword-like Cartilage_. To raise up the _Xiphoid_ Cartilage, it must be fomented before for some time with Oil of Turpentine, or other Fomentations, made with Aromaticks; then the Patient is to be laid upon his Back, with a Convex Body underneath, and the Shoulders, and Sides of the Breast are to be press'd, to lift up the Cartilage. When this Operation is not sufficient, dry Cupping-Glasses are usually apply'd, till the Part be elevated, and a strengthening Plaister is afterward laid upon it. * * * * * CHAP. IX. _Of the Luxation of the _Humerus_, or Arm-Bone_. The Head of the _Humerus_ generally falls under the Arm-Pit, so that the luxated Arm becomes longer than the other, the _Acromion_ appears pointed on the outside; the Elbow starts from the Ribs, and cannot be mov'd without great Pain. To reduce this Bone, the {305} Patient is to be set upon a low Seat, or else on the Ground, whilst some Person supports his Body with a Napkin: In the mean time the Surgeon is to lay hold on the upper-part of the _Humerus_, a Servant kneeling behind him, who is to hold the Patient's Arm above the Elbow, which is to pass between the Surgeon's Legs, and is to be drawn down by the Assistant as much as is possible, whilst the Surgeon in like manner draws the Arm, to remove the Head of the Bone out of the place where it was stopt; insomuch that the Bone sometimes makes a Noise in re-entring its Cavity.