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Title: American national Red cross text-book on first aid and relief columns; a manual of instruction; how to prevent accidents and what to do for injuries and emergencies
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Lynch, Charles, 1868- American National Red Cross
Subjects: First aid in illness and injury
Publisher: Philadelphia, P. Blakiston's son & co.
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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mity; andthe third, the Femoral, the lower extremity. The table which follows gives certain necessary informationregarding these arteries and their branches. Artcrv Course :Point on wliich to cxirt! pressure. Head and Neck. Carotid Facial (a branch ofcarotid). Temporal (a branchof carotid). From upper, outer ^ of breast bonetoangl? of jaw.Diagonally across th? lower jaw from below upward.Upward one-half inch in front of ear. Deep. Down and back,an inch to the outerside of Adams apple. On the face, an inch infront of the angle ofthe lower jaw. On skull, immediatelyin front of upper partof ear or on temple. Upper Extremity. Subclavian. Brachial (a branch ofa branch of the sub-clavian). Across the middle ofiirst rib to arm pit. Descends along innerside of biceps muscle.About line of seam ofcoat. Deep. Down and backover centre of collar-bone on fir.st rib.Shoulder should bedrawn down first. Against humerus bygrasping and pullingbiceps to outer side. ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY. Facial.Carotid.
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Temporal __ _. ^ul)clavlan_ ^raciiial Jim oral Fig. 2.—Arteries and points of pressure. CTRCULATION. Artery Course Point on which to exertpressure. Lower Extremity. Down thigh from pel-vis to knee, Hne frommiddle of line betweenpoint of hip and cen-tre of pelvis in front toinner side of knee. Against femur high upinner side in line givenabout three inches be-low upper end of line. Arterial bleeding is always most serious, because blood thrownout in jets from the cut artery with each contraction of the heart israpidly lost. The blood which spurts from an artery is alwaysbright red in color, as arterial blood has not yet lost the character-istic bright red of the oxygenated blood from the lungs. 2. Capillaries.—The arteries, as they go further and furtherfrom the heart, become very small and thin-walled, till theyfinally terminate in still smaller vessels which are called capillaries,from the Latin word meaning a hair. The capillaries form adelicate net-work of vessels everywhere, a

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