Our home physician: a new and popular guide to the art of preserving health and treating disease; with plain advice for all the medical and surgical emergencies of the family . in their rightsituation. When tension and inflammation prevail, active means,by both general and topical bleeding, freely evacuating the bowelsby purgatives, and confining the patient to a spare regimen, must beresorted to, not only in dislocations of the thigh-bone, but likewisein those of the minor ones. In very robust persons, the force of the muscles sometimes resistsevery effort to reduce a disjointed limb, in whic
Our home physician: a new and popular guide to the art of preserving health and treating disease; with plain advice for all the medical and surgical emergencies of the family . in their rightsituation. When tension and inflammation prevail, active means,by both general and topical bleeding, freely evacuating the bowelsby purgatives, and confining the patient to a spare regimen, must beresorted to, not only in dislocations of the thigh-bone, but likewisein those of the minor ones. In very robust persons, the force of the muscles sometimes resistsevery effort to reduce a disjointed limb, in which case it may bewell to excite some degree of languor and debility, either by puttingthe patient into a warm bath, or giving him a grain or two of tar-tarized antimony, the operator taking the advantage of the effectproduced thereby previous to the act of vomiting, for reducing thedislocated bone; or by the inhalation of chloroform, or sulphuricether. DISLOCATION OF THE JAW-BONE. To reduce a. dislocation of the jaw-bone, the person is to beplaced on a low stool, and his head being firmly held by an assist-ant, the operator is then to thrust his two thumbs, covered with. DISLOCATED JAW. SETTING THE JAW. linen cloths that they may not slip, as far into the mouth as he can,while his fingers are applied externally to the jaw. After he has EUPTTJEES. 427 got a firm hold of this, he is to press it strongly downward andbackward, by which means the protruded ends of the jaw-bone maybe easily restored to their proper cavities or sockets. The jaw isafterward to be kept still for some time, the patient avoidingmastication, particularly of any hard substance, till the parts haveacquired their former tone. DISLOCATION OF THE KECK. When the neck is completely dislocated, speedy death ensues ifit is not instantly replaced, owing to the pressure made by the partson the spinal marrow. If it be only partially displaced, the life ofthe patient may be preserved if the reduction be promptly made. W
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