The body and its ailments: a handbook of familiar directions for care and medical aid in the more usual complaints and injuries . is carefully done. Bleeding from Large Arteries. When one of the large arteries,which carry the bright red blood from the heart, is cut, there isrequired more active treatment. This is, to compress the maintrunk of the artery, higher up, by the fingers, a strap and pad, ora tourniquet. We shall show how this is to be done in the variouslimbs. If the bleeding be from a woundin the arm, near the armpit, inwhich case nothing more can forthe moment be done, a bystanders
The body and its ailments: a handbook of familiar directions for care and medical aid in the more usual complaints and injuries . is carefully done. Bleeding from Large Arteries. When one of the large arteries,which carry the bright red blood from the heart, is cut, there isrequired more active treatment. This is, to compress the maintrunk of the artery, higher up, by the fingers, a strap and pad, ora tourniquet. We shall show how this is to be done in the variouslimbs. If the bleeding be from a woundin the arm, near the armpit, inwhich case nothing more can forthe moment be done, a bystandershould press his thumb firmly intothe neck, behind the middle of thecollar bone, which will stop the flowof blood through the great artery ofthe arm as it is first coming out ofthe chest. As, however, the pres-sure thus made soon tires the thumb,the handle of a door-key, wrappedin three or four folds of linen, maybe pressed behind the middle of thecollar bone, and held without fatigue for almost any length of time,till proper assistance can be obtained. When the wound is below the armpit, about the elbow, the pres- Fig. Pressure to Check Bleeding atthe Armpit. Bleeding, or Hemorrhage. 209 sure should be directed as shown in Fig. 67. The cut also shows Fig. 67. Pressure to Check Bleeding in Upper pressure by the thumb can be used to check bleeding near thearmpit. The arm and forearm, with dotted lines, indicate the course of Fig. 68. Handkerchief Tourniquet on the Arm, 18* 2IO Accidents, Injuries and Poisons. the arteries, and points at which pressure can be most judiciouslyapplied. The arrow points the course of the current of the blood of theartery, from the heart to the exttemities. Permanent pressure is exerted by means of a temporary tourni-quet to the artery of the arm. A common folded handkerchief,with a firm, sharply-defined knot tied at the middle, a long strip ofmuslin torn from a shirt sleeve, or a suspender, with a suitable knotin it, is rather loosely
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