The mariner's medical guide : designed for the use of ships, families, and plantations : containing the symptoms and treatment of diseases : also, a list of medicines, their uses, and the mode of administering, when a physician cannot be procured : selected from standard medical works . w additional remarks on the subject of fracturesmay be of service. In addition to the means advised atpage 125, for the treatment of fracture of the collar bone,a figure of 8 bandage will be of service to keep theshoulder back in its proper position. The cut givenbelow will show the method of applying it. The c
The mariner's medical guide : designed for the use of ships, families, and plantations : containing the symptoms and treatment of diseases : also, a list of medicines, their uses, and the mode of administering, when a physician cannot be procured : selected from standard medical works . w additional remarks on the subject of fracturesmay be of service. In addition to the means advised atpage 125, for the treatment of fracture of the collar bone,a figure of 8 bandage will be of service to keep theshoulder back in its proper position. The cut givenbelow will show the method of applying it. The cushion under the armpit should be larger, proportion-ally, than the artist has figured it. The object is tokeep the shoulder well out from the body, and back inits proper place till the broken bone is united, and thusprevent deformity from the shoulder settling inward andforward. MARINERS MEDICAL GUIDE. 175 The arm should then be securely bandaged to thebodv so as to prevent the slightest motion, and the lowerarm supported in a sling. The next cut illustrates the method of applying thebandage in fracture of the arm. Bandage from the hand,moderately tight, but not so as to stop the will prevent the troublesome swelling of the lowerarm which otherwise would Fracture of the Thigh. An excellent and simple method of treating this formi-dable injury is represented in the accompanying illustra-tion. A piece of board, an inch thick and about fourinches wide, if the limb be unusually stout, iscut of such a length as to reach from the short ribs tofour inches beyond the foot. Two deep notches are cutin the lower end, and two holes about an inch wide made 176 MARINERS MEDICAL GUIDE. through the other end. The side to be applied to thelimb is well padded with soft folded cloths, or any otherconvenient padding adapted to the inequalities of the limb,so as to prevent undue pressure on any prominent the patient on a firm mattress, and having extend
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