Constricting Bandages 11 Letters - 7 Little Words

A change of bearers is easily effected and without having to lower the patient flat on the ground, which may be rough, uneven or wet. In all these cases the head must be held steady by an assistant. In some cases it directly impaired their growth and multiplication; in others it would convert the previously poisonous germs into harmless ones, though not preventing their actual growth.

In applying a roller bandage to any part of the body or any of the limbs, you must remember first of all that it should exert an even pressure in every turn throughout its whole length. Just as in burns and scalds, we distinguish here also three different degrees, namely, the simple reddening of the surface, the formation of blisters, and the complete death of the parts. The bandage ought to measure at its base about 60 inches, its height to the tip or point ought to be thirty inches. The chest cavity contains the most important organs of circulation and respiration, namely, the heart and the lungs. Whenever death is brought about by suffocation, the face of the drowned person will present a puffed-up, swollen appearance, the skin of his face will be of a dark bluish color, particularly noticeable about the lips and eyes; there will, furthermore, also be a good deal of water found in the stomach and the lungs. If the man begins to vomit, turn him over on his side with the face downward, so as to prevent any of the contents of his stomach from being sucked down into the wind-pipe and the lungs, which is a frequent cause of pneumonia. Inspection of the knife is similar to that of the sword or saber. 2 with the right, No. An extended trellis flower pot cover forms an excellent splint for this fracture (see fig. The Drill Manual issued from the office of the Surgeon-General of the Army provides for the falling in of the men for inspection, drill, or active service, and prescribes the duties of each member of the squad in connection with litters, ambulances and other means or modes of transportation. Welch, of the Johns Hopkins Hospital, proved very conclusively that this method could not be absolutely relied on. For purposes of embarking or disembarking the sick and wounded where stretcher conveyance is not available or inapplicable. Therefore, you must always keep in mind the one thing you must not do, namely, Harm!

The most serious of all injuries, however, are the so-called gunshot injuries produced by missiles that are propelled by some kind of explosive material, and the treatment of which calls for the greatest possible degree of skill and judgment on the part of the surgeon. As soon as both respiration and circulation have become re-established, put your man into a warm bed, surrounding him with hot bottles. Is a condition characterized by the loss of consciousness, of general sensation and voluntary movements. The difficulty in the way of cleaning them thoroughly has determined surgeons to discard them altogether.

This fracture is occasioned by blows or squeezing of the thorax, and is especially liable to be followed by secondary complications, such as inflammation of the lungs or of the pleural membranes, either of which may have been injured at the time of the accident. A bottle is provided with a doubly perforated cork; into one of the holes in the cork a short piece of glass tubing is introduced and into the other a long piece reaching to the bottom of the bottle. 5), say the hip-joint, which is one of the most complicated of them all, you would be surprised, on putting your finger on the inside of it, how smooth everything feels. After the bandage is secured, rub the limb in the direction from the center towards the periphery, beginning at or near the bandage, thus squeezing out any poison which may have entered the lymphatics; then wash out the wound, burn or cauterize it as much as may seem necessary. An individual who is intensely prostrated may not be subjected to this treatment without risk of syncope. In case several hours have elapsed and the pain and swelling greatly increased, all that you can do is to place the limb at rest, slightly elevating it and making cold applications with either water or ice. A rifle may be used as the outside splint in this injury. The purpose of these lectures and the demonstrations which will follow them is to give you that knowledge and training which will enable you to administer to your comrades whatever help they may need when injured, and to do it intelligently and with perfect safety. The whole process should be slow and gradual and the external application of heat altogether avoided. The eschar which these substances produce arouses local inflammation, followed by suppuration and a slow and very gradual process of repair of the injury by cicatrization through the formation of granulation tissue. Both brain, spinal cord and nerves are made up of numerous fine fibers and an endless number of cells or pyramidal-shaped minute little bodies. Let us take, for example, a fresh sprain of the wrist-joint which is fit for massage. Extension should be made and then three splints put on.

Supposing it to be a fracture of the thigh-bone. It is, furthermore, intended in this course of instruction to impress your minds with some of the leading and fundamental principles of hygiene, a knowledge of which will enable you to do much toward the prevention of infectious diseases among you, or, in case of an actual outbreak of an epidemic of whatever kind of disease, will at least form a safe guide for your conduct while it prevails, giving you a better chance of escape than you otherwise would have. It is much easier to revive one of the latter class than one of the former. If the accident occurs in a town or village it is, of course, easy to secure all that is necessary in the way of splints and soft material for pads. The hand should be subsequently supported by a large or small arm-sling. In case this reaction is unduly delayed you may be called upon to bring it about reflexly by holding some strong-smelling substances under his nose, such as ammonia, or by sprinkling cold water into his face, also giving him a cold enema of vinegar; if, however, on the contrary, the reaction is prompt, then remember that rest is what your patient most needs, and you should do all in your power to keep every body and every thing away from him that will interfere with his rest. 2) The second method according to which bacteria produce disease is that, instead of their bodily entering the circulation proper, they remain growing and multiplying at the seat of their primary inoculation, like a fungus on a tree, but produce a poison or toxine which is taken up by the blood-vessels and lymphatics and is thence carried to all the tissues of the body, causing the characteristic disease.