Identifier: homemedicaladvis00wins (find matches)
Title: The home medical adviser, a popular work on the treatment of disease
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Winslow, Kenelm, 1863- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Medicine, Popular
Publisher: New York and London, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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one end,tapering up to a point at the other, is placed against the patientsside with the tapering end uppermost in the arnrpit and the thickend down. This pad is kept in place by a strip of surgeons ad-hesive plaster, or bandage passing through the small end of thewedge, and brought up and fastened over the opposite shoulder. While the arm is pulled down from the shoulder, three stripsof well-padded tin or thin board (such as pictureframe backing SPECIAL FRACTURES 67 or thin box boards) two inches wide and long enough to reach fromshoulder to elbow, are laid against the bare skin of the front, out-side, and back of the arm, and secured by encircling strips of sur-geons plaster or bandage. The arm is then brought onto the padlying against the side under the armpit, and is held there firmlyby a wide bandage surrounding the arm and entire chest, and reach-ing from the shoulder to elbow. It is prevented from slipping bystrips of cotton cloth, which are placed over the shoulders and pinned
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Fig. 15. Fig. 16. Figs. 15 and 16.—Treatment of Fracture of Bone of Arm. In Fig. 15, note Splintssecured by Adhesive Plaster; also Pad in Armpit. In Fig. 16, see Wide Bandagearound Body, also Sling. behind and before to the top of the bandage. The wrist is thensupported in a sling, not over two inches wide, with the fore-arm carried in a horizontal position across the front of the body.Firm union of the broken arm takes place usually in from fourto six weeks (see Figs. 15 and 16). A first-aid dressing for a break in the middle of the bone ofthe arm may be made by placing the splints as just described overthe clothing of the arm, held in place by strips of adhesive plasteror bandages, and slinging the hand, as before. A first-aid dressing for a break in the upper part of the bone 68 FRACTURES OR BROKEN BONES may be made by folding a towel for a pad in the armpit, holdingthe arm to the side with a bandage about the arm and body, andslinging the hand. Fractures of the arm near the shou

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