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Identifier: homemedicallibra01wins (find matches)
Title: The home medical library
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Winslow, Kenelm, 1863-
Subjects: Medicine, Popular Medicine
Publisher: New York, The Review of reviews company
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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ard and butslightly inward, yet may be bent forward. Walking isimpossible. Pain and deformity of the hip joint areevident. The only condition with which this would belikely to be confused is a fracture of bone in the regionof the hip. Fracture of the hip is common in oldpeople, but not in youth or middle adult life. In frac-ture there is usually not enough shortening to be per-ceived with the eye; the toes are more often turned out,and the patient can often bear some weight on the limband even walk. Treatment—The simplest treatment is that rec-ommended by Stimson, as follows: the patient is tobe slung up in the air in a vertical position by meansof a sheet or belt of some sort placed around the bodyunder the armpits, so that the feet dangle a foot orso from the floor, and then a weight of about ten orfifteen pounds, according to the strength of the pa- 129 Dislocation of the Hip tients muscles, is attached to the foot of the injuredleg (bricks, flatirons, or stones may be used), and
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Fig. 34.REDUCING DISLOCATION OF HIP (Reference Handbook). Patient lying on table ; uninjured leg held by assistant; leg of dislocatedside at right angles; note weight at bend of knee. this weight will usually draw the bone down into itssocket within ten or fifteen minutes. 130 fV ins low and Ferris Or the patient may assume the position shown inthe accompanying cut, lying prone upon a table withthe uninjured leg held horizontally by one person,while another, with the injured thigh held verticallyand leg at right angles, grasps the patients ankle andmoves it gently from side to side after placing a five-to ten-pound sand bag, or similar weight of other sub-stance, at the flexure of the knee. When the disloca-tion has been overcome the patient should stay in bedfor a week or two and then go about gradually oncrutches for two weeks longer. SURGICAL DRESSINGS.—Sterilized gauze isthe chief surgical dressing of the present day. This ma-terial is simply cheese cloth, from which grease and

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