The body and its ailments: a handbook of familiar directions for care and medical aid in the more usual complaints and injuries . nepushing into the flesh. This is a much more serious accident thaneither of those already mentioned, and is managed with difficultyby any but an expert surgeon. When none is near, the limb shouldbe gently, but firmly, drawn down, so that the bones are restored totheir natural position. The simplest plan is then to lay narrow bags,eighteen inches long and six inches in diameter, loosely filled withsand, along the outer course of the limb. Keep it constantly irri-gat
The body and its ailments: a handbook of familiar directions for care and medical aid in the more usual complaints and injuries . nepushing into the flesh. This is a much more serious accident thaneither of those already mentioned, and is managed with difficultyby any but an expert surgeon. When none is near, the limb shouldbe gently, but firmly, drawn down, so that the bones are restored totheir natural position. The simplest plan is then to lay narrow bags,eighteen inches long and six inches in diameter, loosely filled withsand, along the outer course of the limb. Keep it constantly irri-gated, and if it tends to become displaced by contraction of themuscles, a brick should be suspended to a rope passing over a pulleyat the foot of the bed, and fastened by a string around the nearly every case, no matter how well treated, there remainsslight shortening of the limb and a limp in the walk. Fig. 76. In fracture of the leg, below he knee, we also have eitherone or two bones, as in the armbelow the elbow. Here, too,,one may serve as a splint to theother. When the accident oc-curs, the patient should be put. Box for Broken Leg. in bed, the limb gently brought Bones Out of Joint, or Dislocated. 217 to its natural shape by the hands of the attendant, and then placedin a box, as shown in Fig. 76. Between the sides of the box and the limb, sand bags can be laid,or, if there is an outer wound, bran or sawdust. A sling can beplaced around the ankle, and passing through two holes in the foot-board, may be used to keep the leg in a firm and natural fracture usually lays the patient up for six weeks. Bones Out of Joint, op Dislocated. On pages 51 and 52of this book, the reader has seen the different ways in which naturehas connected the bones of the body. When this connection isviolently separated, the bone is said to be out of joint, or dislo-cated. The signs of this accident are, first, a deformity, seen andfelt, caused by the presence of the end of the
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