. Accidents and emergencies; a manual of the treatment of surgical and medical emergencies in the absence of a physician. Fig. 27.—Position of hands called Lady to London. If a limb is crushed or broken, it may be laid upona pillow, with bandages tied round the whole, so as tokeep it from slipping about. (See Page 64.) Wherean injured person can walk, he can get much help byputting his arms over the shoulders and round thenecks of two others. In case of an injury, when TRANSPORTATION OF INJURED PERSONS. II9 walking is impossible, and lying down is not abso-lutely necessary, an injured person m
. Accidents and emergencies; a manual of the treatment of surgical and medical emergencies in the absence of a physician. Fig. 27.—Position of hands called Lady to London. If a limb is crushed or broken, it may be laid upona pillow, with bandages tied round the whole, so as tokeep it from slipping about. (See Page 64.) Wherean injured person can walk, he can get much help byputting his arms over the shoulders and round thenecks of two others. In case of an injury, when TRANSPORTATION OF INJURED PERSONS. II9 walking is impossible, and lying down is not abso-lutely necessary, an injured person may be seated ona chair and carried, or he may sit upon a board or afence-rail, the ends of which are carried by two men,. Fig. 28.—Three-handed chair, withlback. around whose necks he should place his arms, so asto steady himself; or two men may carry him seatedon their interlocked hands, in the way known tochildren as Lady to London. For this purpose ACCIDENTS AND EMERGENCIES. each of two persons, standing face to face, shouldgrasp his own left wrist with his right hand (the backsuppermost), then he should grasp his companionsfree right wrist with his own free left hand, as shownin Figure very useful method is the three-handed chairmade by one man grasp-ing his own wrist and withthe hand of the lattergrasping the wrist of anassistant, who, with thehand of the same arm,grasps the yet free wristof the first man, and withhis other hand clasps theneck of the first. Thismakes a chair with a back,and may be used where aninjured person cannot helphimself with his arms.(See Fig. 28.) When nolitter can be obtained, the body may be supportedby two men, one on each side, with their arms placedbehind his che
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