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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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between two bearers in a sitting position, or semi-recumbent. The first method is shown in the accompanying illustration, Fig. 16,the opposite hands of the bearers being interlaced under the thighs and behind theloins, and the patient putting his arms round the bearers necks. This method isvery trying to the bearers, and could only be endured for a short distance. A FRACTURES, DISLOCATIONS, BURNS, AND SCALDS. 705 patient is much more easily carried in the semi-recumbent position, if placed in thearms of two men, arranged as shown in the illustration, Fig. 17, their opposite handsfirmly interlacing in front, and their other hands being placed on each othersmoulders, so as to support the patient behind; thus the weight of the patient fallschiefly on the two arms behind him, and he can be carried for some distance withoutfatigue. Another way of carrying a patient is upon what is known among schoolboys as> sedan-chair, each bearer grasping his own fore-arm and that of his fellow about
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Fig. 16. Fig. 17. its middle, as shown in the illustration, Fig, 18, and the patient grasping the bearers*necks, as shown before in Fig. 16. This is a convenient way to carry ladies overshallow streams, &c, in the course of country walks or at picnics; and as on thoseoccasions sprained ankles are not altogether unknown, a disabled member of a partymay thus be transported for a long distance with relays of bearers, the two workingtogether being as nearly as possible of a height. Dislocations.—A dislocation, like a fracture, should always be submitted to the)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

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