CHAP. XXI. OF A LUXATION OF THE KNEE.
It is very well known, that the knee slips inward, outward, and backward. Most authors have written, that it is not displaced forward. And that may appear very probable; as in that place the patella is opposed to it, and likewise keeps in the head of the tibia. But Meges has given an instance of a person cured by him, where the luxation was forward.
In these cases the ligaments may be extended by the same means, which I recited in the femur. And where the bone is luxated backward, it is reduced in the same manner, by some round body applied to the ham, and drawing up the leg. In the other cases the hands are only to be used, and then the bones are at the same time forced different ways.