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 . BANDAGES EOR HEAD. from being at all disturbed), raises them perpendicularly, but slowlyand gradually, never acting upon more than one plaster at a wound ought then to be gently sponged with warm water, anda fresh dressing applied in the way already IRRIGATING A WOUND. Although strapping be not rigorously required in wounds of thischaracter (the bandage sufficing in a great majority of instances, OF FK
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 . BANDAGES EOR HEAD. from being at all disturbed), raises them perpendicularly, but slowlyand gradually, never acting upon more than one plaster at a wound ought then to be gently sponged with warm water, anda fresh dressing applied in the way already IRRIGATING A WOUND. Although strapping be not rigorously required in wounds of thischaracter (the bandage sufficing in a great majority of instances, OF FKACTTJBES. 413 with a compress on each side of the wound), yet it is unquestionablythe most secure method, and particularly in hands not often accus-tomed to treat such accidents. Torn or lacerated wounds demand nearly the same treatment, butthe dressings require to be put on with the utmost gentleness, and thebandage applied still more lightly. When inflammation comes on thewounded limb may be cooled by water, in the manner representedin the cut. OF FKACTUKES. Although the bones are almost insensible to pain when in a soundstate, yet when they are fractured the slightest motion of the frac-tured extremities is attended with acute suffering. This has theeffect of securing repose and quietude, without which the process ofrecovery would be prevented, and an exact reunion of the brokenpart could not be accomplished. The irritation produ
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