. Minor surgery and bandaging; including the treatment of fractures and dislocations, the ligation of arteries, amputations, excisions and resections, intestinal anastomosis, operations upon nerves and tendons, tracheotomy, intubation of the larynx, t ribs. Brace your elbows against yoursides, and steadily grasping and pressing forward and up-ward throw your whole weight upon the chest, graduallyincreasing the pressure while you count one—two— suddenly let go with a final push which springs youback to your first position (Fig. 143). Rest erect uponyour knees while you count one
. Minor surgery and bandaging; including the treatment of fractures and dislocations, the ligation of arteries, amputations, excisions and resections, intestinal anastomosis, operations upon nerves and tendons, tracheotomy, intubation of the larynx, t ribs. Brace your elbows against yoursides, and steadily grasping and pressing forward and up-ward throw your whole weight upon the chest, graduallyincreasing the pressure while you count one—two— suddenly let go with a final push which springs youback to your first position (Fig. 143). Rest erect uponyour knees while you count one—two; then make press-lire as before, repeating the entire motions at first aboutfour or fiye times a minute, gradually increasing themto about ten or twelye times. Use the same regularityas in blowing bellows and as seen in the natural breath- 204 MINOR SURGERY. ing which you are imitating. If another person is pres-ent, let him with one hand, by means of a dry piece oflinen, hold the tip of the tongue out of one corner of themouth, and with the other hand grasp both wrists and pinthem to the ground above the patients head. Thismethod may be employed in cases of stillbirth, or inyoung children, the operator holding the body of the Fig. Direct method of artificial respiration. child in his left hand and compressing it with the Method of Artificial Respiration.—In employing this method of artificial respiration the patientshould be placed on his back upon a firm flat surface ; acushion of clothing is placed under the shoulders, and thehead should be dropped lower than the body by tiltingthe surface on which he is laid. The mouth being clearedof mucus or foreign substances, the tongue is drawn for-ward and secured to the chin by a piece of tape tiedaround it and the lower jaw, or may be pulled out of themouth and held by an assistant. The operator, standingat the patients head, grasps the arms at the elbows andcarries them first outward and then
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