The body and its ailments: a handbook of familiar directions for care and medical aid in the more usual complaints and injuries . igure 61. Sometimes, when a leg or thigh is broken and much injured, itis desirable to renew its bandage without lifting the limb. This isaccomplished by a simple and ingenious device known as the many-tailed, or Scultetus bandage. A number of single strips,-of thewidth of the ordinary roller, arelaid adjacent, as shown in Figure62, and upon these the limb islaid. The ends of each stripare then brought to the front ofthe limb, folded, and single strip c
The body and its ailments: a handbook of familiar directions for care and medical aid in the more usual complaints and injuries . igure 61. Sometimes, when a leg or thigh is broken and much injured, itis desirable to renew its bandage without lifting the limb. This isaccomplished by a simple and ingenious device known as the many-tailed, or Scultetus bandage. A number of single strips,-of thewidth of the ordinary roller, arelaid adjacent, as shown in Figure62, and upon these the limb islaid. The ends of each stripare then brought to the front ofthe limb, folded, and single strip can then bereplaced, without lifting the limb,by pinning one of the samelength to its end and drawing itunder the limb. A Many-tailed Bandage. Of all applications to a broken or much injured limb, water, hotor cold, simple or medicated, stands first in importance. Everybodyshould know how to keep a limb constantly moist, and constantly atthe same temperature. This is called irrigating a limb. Thevery simple apparatus shown in Figure 63, which can be easilyconstructed, answers the purpose admirably. A small bucket Fig 62. ^H!. 204 Accidents, Injuries and Poisons. is suspended from the ceiling. A pipe, with a number of smallapertures, is fastened to its bottom. The flow is regulated by thestop-cock. The bed is protected by a rubber cloth. And thus thelimb is constantly bathed in a gentle stream of fluid of any requiredtemperature. No treatment is more efficacious to reduce swelling,prevent inflammation, and hasten recovery. The general rule is,that the temperature of the fluid be that most agreeable to thepatient Ffe. 63.
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