The people's common sense medical adviser in plain English, or, Medicine simplified . Mode o( employing llexion for the arrest of hemorrhage from a wound below the knee. Mg. Mode of employing flexion for the arrest of hemorrhage from a wound locatedbetween the thigh and knee. DROWNING. 827 many cases of hemorrhage, and would have saved many aSouliers life during the late war, had it been emj)loyed. Aswater cannot How through a rubber tube bent at a sharp angle,so the acute llexion of a limb j)revents the free flow of bloodthrough its arterial tubes. 1864. In some cases Myptics may be dir
The people's common sense medical adviser in plain English, or, Medicine simplified . Mode o( employing llexion for the arrest of hemorrhage from a wound below the knee. Mg. Mode of employing flexion for the arrest of hemorrhage from a wound locatedbetween the thigh and knee. DROWNING. 827 many cases of hemorrhage, and would have saved many aSouliers life during the late war, had it been emj)loyed. Aswater cannot How through a rubber tube bent at a sharp angle,so the acute llexion of a limb j)revents the free flow of bloodthrough its arterial tubes. 1864. In some cases Myptics may be directly applied to thewounded tissues. (See Astringents, ^ 514.) Cold acts as apowerful styptic, and may generally be made available for arrest-inij hemorrhage. 1865. Poif^OIICCl W^oillicls. The treatment of theseshould chiefly consist in the jirevention of the spread of thepoison. This may be done by tightly apjilying bandages above thewound and scarifying or sucking tlie parts Nitrate of silver maytlien be used and the ligatures removed. Alcohol, in any form,is an antidote to snake poison. For the stings of insects, applyfresh earth, Iaw onion, plantain, 8j)iriti! of turpe
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