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Identifier: interstatemedica1419unse (find matches)
Title: Interstate medical journal
Year: 1907 (1900s)
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Subjects: Medicine
Publisher: St. Louis, : Interstate Medical Journal
Contributing Library: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Historical Medical Library
Digitizing Sponsor: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the National Endowment for the Humanities

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otim The same stuff is to be applied locally.This treatment is recorded to have been tried with success many times.Another method is to rub two knives together in water and drink it.Applying to the wound the juice of a plant called Lun Wong Kek issaid to be very effective. When the snake is coiled round the body of aperson, with no tendency to loosen, the patient is advised to roll round onthe ground when the snake will feel tired and loosen itself. 4. Burns and scalds. Honey with boiled water, or warm sugar water,or childs urine is to be given per mouth immediately. Peanut oil shakenwith lime water applied to burned surface. The burned surface should SURGERY AMONG THE CHINESE. 319 never be washed or soaked in cold water, as is often done. Human milkwith salt has also been used. 5. Haemorrhage from cut wounds. Slice a piece of lean meat andapply to the cut surface; haemorrhage is at once stopped. Apply to thewound burned paper. Tampon the wound with tobacco, or cauterize withhot iron.
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6. Concussion and compression of brain with haemorrhage frommouth and ears, and patient in an insensible state resulting from blows orfalls. Keep the patient perfectly quiet in a dark room and avoid all visit-ors. Allow the patient to sit down with arms and legs folded. Give atonce per mouth boys urine, or warm water with sugar and alcohol. 320 KEE. Apply to the head or wounded surface warm soil dug up three feet belowthe surface of the earth. 7. Prolapse of intestine from stab wound. Wash the wound andprolapsed part with boiled vinegar; the intestine will spontaneously slipback. Apply to the wound skin of newly killed chicken. 8. Foreign bodies.—A. Needle in palm. If it is impossible to ex-tract it, give the patient internally ash of burned feather of hawk mixedwith alcohol. Apply to the wound a mixture of finely ground porcelainpowder and olive oil, or ham skin; the needle will slip out gradually likemagic. B. Shots or shells in flesh. Apply to the wound fish stomachground togethe

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