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Title: Dr. Hood's plain talks about the human system : the habits of men and women - the causes and prevention of disease - our sexual relations and social natures - embracing common sense medical adviser...
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Hood, G. Durant
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Publisher: Chicago : Hood Medical Book Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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are of a surgeon as soon as possible. When a bone has slipped from its socket thelimb is useless, and there is more or less pain, and the neighbourhood of the joint isbformed. A dislocation of the shoulder is at once the most common, the most painful, andche most readily reduced of these accidents, and we venture, therefore, to give a few45 706 DOMESTIC SURGERY. hints for its treatment. A fall into a ditch is a common cause of this accident, theelbow being caught on the bank and suddenly thrust upwards, when the head of the
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Fig. 18. bone slips out of its socket and into the arm-pit, giving rise to excruciating painfrom its pressure upon the large nerves. This being an accident which may happento a rider when hunting, or when unable to obtain assistance, he may safely makean attempt to reduce the arm himself, by using a gate for the purpose of a fulcrum,as shown in Fig. 19. Here, lifting his arm over the gate with the other hand, thepatient grasps the lowest bar he can reach, and allows the weight of his body to hang on the other side of the gateuntil by the pressure of the top barthe bone is forced into its socketwith a snap. Another method, which may besafely employed by a bystander, isto seat the sufferer in a strong chairand to put the foot on the seat withthe bent knee under the dislocatedshoulder, as shown in Fig. 20. Thearm is then to be grasped and for-•p. 19 cibly bent over the knee, when the dislocation will probably be reduced ;no more violent efforts are justifiable in the hands of non-profe

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