. What to do first, in accidents or poisoning . parts in the position easiest to the suf-ferer, surround the joint with cold, wet cloths,and send for a surgeon. The risk of doing injuryby injudicious efforts to set a joint is greater thanthat of waiting till a surgeon can be summoned. FRACTURES. Broken bones call for treatment as various asthey themselves are. Most of them require specialappliances known only to surgeons, and no attemptshould be made by any one who has not surgicaltraining to do more than treat a fracture tempo-rarily. However, until a surgeon can be gotten,the following sugge
. What to do first, in accidents or poisoning . parts in the position easiest to the suf-ferer, surround the joint with cold, wet cloths,and send for a surgeon. The risk of doing injuryby injudicious efforts to set a joint is greater thanthat of waiting till a surgeon can be summoned. FRACTURES. Broken bones call for treatment as various asthey themselves are. Most of them require specialappliances known only to surgeons, and no attemptshould be made by any one who has not surgicaltraining to do more than treat a fracture tempo-rarily. However, until a surgeon can be gotten,the following suggestions may be adopted, as faras the circumstances will permit. In breaks oflong bones, like those of the leg or arm, draw the 34 WHAT TO DO FIRST, limb out a little, make it as straight as possible,(comparing it with its fellow of the opposite side)and place under it a pillow. Then pass broad band-ages around this, and tie them together over thelimb, so as to draw the sides of the pillow prettyfirmly up against it. This is simply for the pur-. pose of keeping it still. Then cold, wet clothsshould be frequently applied to the surface of thelimb, so as to prevent, as far as possible, the swell-ing which usually comes on soon after a fracture,and which often interferes very much with theexamination of the surgeon.* In fractures near any joint it is best to bend * There is nothing in which there is a greater call for ingenuity andfertility of resource than in extemporizing splints for broken , leather, shingles, pieces of cigar box—anything fairly smoothand stiff, may be used. A surgeon at the seashore got himself no littlecredit once by setting a broken arm on the beach, folding up and usingas a splint a large newspaper which he had been reading. When a leg isbroken, the other one will make a good temporary splint. IN A CCIDENTS OR POISONING. 35 the joint a little, and lay the limb flat on a pillow,keeping it cool and moist. These breaks areespecially grave, and
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