The housekeeper's companion : a practical receipt book and household physician, with much other valuable information . portion oi the bandage mustbe so arranged as to allow of water dressing and the drainageof discharges. In the case of comminuted compound frac-tures, if any pieces of loose broken bone be visible, they shouldat once be removed by the help of forceps. Diluted Condysfluid, or carbolic acid and oil (one part of acid to twenty-eightof oil), will be found of great use in dressing compound frac-tures, as they destroy the injurious eflects and foetid odor ofthe discharge. Arm Bones.—
The housekeeper's companion : a practical receipt book and household physician, with much other valuable information . portion oi the bandage mustbe so arranged as to allow of water dressing and the drainageof discharges. In the case of comminuted compound frac-tures, if any pieces of loose broken bone be visible, they shouldat once be removed by the help of forceps. Diluted Condysfluid, or carbolic acid and oil (one part of acid to twenty-eightof oil), will be found of great use in dressing compound frac-tures, as they destroy the injurious eflects and foetid odor ofthe discharge. Arm Bones.—If both bones be broken, a splint and band-age as follows: Care must be takenthat the palm of the hand is flat tothe chest, with the thumb it may be put up in strips oflinen thickly smeared with a paintof chalk and gum, or eggs and severe pain occur the band-age need not be removed under fourweeks. A handkerchief, adjusted asa sling, should support the arm. If one bone of the arm only bebroken, the other bone will act, insome measure, as a splint to keep thebroken bone in its MEDICINAL. 335
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