Industrial medicine and surgery . Fig. 117.—Lymphangitis of the arm from an infected abrasion on back of hours in the hospital with continuous hot dressings relieved this conditionwithout surgical interference. ambulatory care consisted in opening the infected part at the doctorsoffice and allowing the patient to go home, reporting to the office for. Fig. 118.—Thenar space abscess from a neglected knife wound of thumb. Throughand through drainage under a general anesthetic and hospital treatment for threedays gave a prompt recovery without deformity. subsequent dressings. Frequ
Industrial medicine and surgery . Fig. 117.—Lymphangitis of the arm from an infected abrasion on back of hours in the hospital with continuous hot dressings relieved this conditionwithout surgical interference. ambulatory care consisted in opening the infected part at the doctorsoffice and allowing the patient to go home, reporting to the office for. Fig. 118.—Thenar space abscess from a neglected knife wound of thumb. Throughand through drainage under a general anesthetic and hospital treatment for threedays gave a prompt recovery without deformity. subsequent dressings. Frequently these infections were incised withthe use of a local anesthetic, but a general anesthetic was never admin-istered in the doctors office. When necessary, instructions were given 584 INDUSTRIAL MEDICINE AND SURGERY to the patient as to the use of hot dressings at home, and a nurse wouldcall to see that these instructions were carried out. Naturally theseinfections were not as serious as those given hospital treatment,but in spite of this fact their average disability was greater. The ab-solute rest obtained by hospital treatment would cause more rapidrecovery of these cases, but the idea of going to a hospital for a small,minor infection does not appeal to most patients. When a hand infection showed signs of becoming at all serious, orthreatened compli
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