The mariner's medical guide : designed for the use of ships, families, and plantations : containing the symptoms and treatment of diseases : also, a list of medicines, their uses, and the mode of administering, when a physician cannot be procured : selected from standard medical works . Fracture of the Thigh. An excellent and simple method of treating this formi-dable injury is represented in the accompanying illustra-tion. A piece of board, an inch thick and about fourinches wide, if the limb be unusually stout, iscut of such a length as to reach from the short ribs tofour inches bey
The mariner's medical guide : designed for the use of ships, families, and plantations : containing the symptoms and treatment of diseases : also, a list of medicines, their uses, and the mode of administering, when a physician cannot be procured : selected from standard medical works . Fracture of the Thigh. An excellent and simple method of treating this formi-dable injury is represented in the accompanying illustra-tion. A piece of board, an inch thick and about fourinches wide, if the limb be unusually stout, iscut of such a length as to reach from the short ribs tofour inches beyond the foot. Two deep notches are cutin the lower end, and two holes about an inch wide made 176 MARINERS MEDICAL GUIDE. through the other end. The side to be applied to thelimb is well padded with soft folded cloths, or any otherconvenient padding adapted to the inequalities of the limb,so as to prevent undue pressure on any prominent the patient on a firm mattress, and having extendedthe limb with steady force, and reduced the fracture, asdirected page 127, bandage the foot and ankle securely tothe notched end. Be sure to protect the foot and anklefrom injury by plenty of soft padding. See that the footis in its natural position, the toes neither turned in or Next, fold up a large handkerchief or a towel cornerwise,with a little wool, cotton, or oakum in the centre fold toprevent chafing the skin, pass it between the thighs sothat the middle shall rest on the perineum, and one endcome up over the hip and the other underneath. Passthe corners of the handkerchief through the holes in theupper end of the splint ; now, by drawing forcibly uponthese, the splint is thrust downwards, and the foot and legbeing secured to the lower end of it, the limb is kept in asuitable state of extension. The handkerchief may betied so as to admit of its being drawn tighter, as may benecessary. The limb should now be bandaged to thesplint from the toes up, as in the illustration,
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