One of the best methods to correct typical ribs is to have the patient upon the side with the side of the affected ribs upward. Find out exactly the nature of the dislocation, i. e., what is the relation of the dislocated rib to the other tissues. Note whether the rib is upward, downward, inward or forward, locate exactly the dislocated rib. Then, while standing back of the patient, place your fingers upon both ends of the rib. Place your fingers in such a manner that when the proper time in the procedure arrives, all that will be necessary will be to push the ends of the rib into their articulations. For instance, if the rib is raised anteriorly and lowered posteriorly, you will place the fingers on the sternal end, above the affected rib and the fingers on the vertebral end, below the rib, so that when the rib has been released from its abnormal position it may be slipped into normal position. After having placed the fingers in the exact position necessary, have an assistant take the arm and draw it obliquely across the face, while at the same time the patient takes a forced inhalation. The object of drawing the arm across the face and the deep inhalation is to exaggerate the lesion—to draw the ribs out of their locked position—so that the fingers upon either end of the rib may push the rib into normal position. Drawing upon the arm raises all the upper ribs as well as the dislocated typical rib, principally by the use of the serratus magnus; also inhalation has an effect to throw the rib outward and upward and thus away from its articulation. Thus after the lesion has been increased sufficiently to loosen the rib from its abnormal position, the arm is relaxed, the patient exhales, and the fingers upon the ends of the rib correct the dislocation. This treatment is used to the greatest advantage when there is a dislocation of a typical rib; it can be given while the patient is lying down or sitting up, although the former position is preferable.