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Title: Illustrated lectures on ambulance work
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Roberts, R. Lawton
Subjects: Military Medicine Great Britain. Army Medicine, Military First aid in illness and injury Transportation, Military War First Aid Transportation of Patients
Publisher: London : Lewis
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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to theproper way in which to use it. As the figure of this ban-dage (Fig. 7) is much reduced in size, it may be usefullyexamined by means of a hand magnifying glass. The bandage issued by the St. John Ambulance Association(figured in frontispiece) is illustrated by diagrams clearlyshowing its application in cases of wounds, in the binding onof splints, in fractures of the lower jaw and (in the centrallowest figure) of the collar-bone. This bandage is accom-panied by a paper of printed instructions. The bandage of theSt. Andrews Ambulance Association, an illustration of whichthe authorities have courteously permitted me to produce, hasprinted upon it no less than fifty designs, and is issued witha little book of instructions as to its application. The figureof this bandage (Fig. 47) will amply repay careful examina-tion with a magnifying glass, on account of the numerousdiagrams imprinted on it, showing clearly the varied uses ofthe triangular bandage, and also illustrating many other
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APPENDIX. 177 things as well, as, for instance, improvised stretchers made with two oars and canvas and with soldiers knapsacksand rifles, fastened with their straps ; the temporary treat-ment of fractured collar-bone; a fracture of upper armput up with bayonet and scabbard; a fractured fore-armput up with splints and large arm sling (the sling is repre-sented as transparent); artificial respiration by Sylvestersmethod; removal of foreign bodies from the eye; extin-guishing flames by wrapping in hearth-rug ; a wound offore-arm, with hemorrhage, treated by local pressure withfinger; a broken thigh put up with two long lateral splintsand a short one in front; etc. Precautions Necessary in the Presence op Foul Air andPoisonous Gases. No one should venture into any old wells, pits, shafts,vaults, graves in over-crowded church-yards, brewers vats,cellars full of new wine or beer, or drains, without firstlowering into them a lighted candle : for, in such places,there is often collected a qu

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