The Essentials of Bandaging ebook

The Essentials of Bandaging by Matthew Berkeley Hill

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Author: Matthew Berkeley Hill
Page Count: 38 pages
Published Date: 01 Mar 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781130765779
Download Link: The Essentials of Bandaging
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1867 Excerpt: ...If the wood splint is not used, the limb should be supported in a good position by sand-bags laid along its sides. In three days the starch is quite dry, but the drying may be hastened by hot-water bottles or hot sand-bags laid in the bed. It must then be cut up along the front from bottom to top; it will be found to be loose, especially where swelling had existed before; this is best remedied by paring the overlapping edges with scissors. If any projecting bone is chafed, an accident that nevertheless ought not to happen, the case may be lifted from the sore part by a little more wool laid around, not on the part pinched. The limb being in a satisfactory position, and the case fitting properly, a roller carried up over the whole keeps it in place while it is worn (fig. 54). The patient need not now be confined to bed; on the contrary, the limb should be supported by a sling round his neck, while he gets about with crutches, if his leg be the part injured. The fracture should be examined from time to time, and at the end of three weeks some of the joints previously confined in the splint may be released by cutting off the part covering them, substituting it with a bandage if they, the foot or leg, are in a dependent position. The limb may also be washed with soap and water, and then anointed with simple ointment, if the skin be roughened or irritated by long confinement. In six weeks the starch splint may usually be discarded, and a roller alone worn for a few weeks longer. Plaster of Paris Bandage. Apparatus.--1. Freshly burned white plaster of Paris. 2. Rollers, about 2 inches wide, of muslin with a coarse open texture. 3. Basin of cold water, sponge, and a kitchen spoon. The muslin rollers are prepared by being loaded just before they are used with the d...

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