A surgeon treating a man's dislocated shoulder. Lithograph by W.P. Cocks, ca. 1831.

"Dislocations of the os humeri. The mode of reducing dislocations of the os humeri by the heel in the axilla"--legend to this plate. One of the methods to be used when the head of the humerus is displaced from the glenoid cavity of the scapula: the surgeon places his heel in the patient's armpit and pulls on his arm