Identifier: onbandagingother00sarg (find matches)
Title: On bandaging and other operations of minor surgery
Year: 1867 (1860s)
Authors: Sargent, F. W. (Fitzwilliam), 1820-1889 Atlee, W. F
Subjects: Military Medicine Bandages Surgical Procedures, Minor Bandages and bandaging Surgery, Minor Medicine, Military
Publisher: Philadelphia : Henry C. Lea
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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to hold the foot in an easy position,an upper angle, for the hip, should be of about the same degree, 368 GUNSHOT WOUNDS. but one inch farther from the end; the angle at the knee shouldbe more obtuse, or about 160°. These angles are readily madeby bendinor the splint over the top of a chair, or the edge of abed. and they can easily be varied, as is often necessary, to suitparticular fractures. When the splint is thus shaped, as represented at figure 18n,it is to be tightly wrapped with a muslin bandage, and it is readyfor application. The suspensory apparatus is simple, and easy of application.A small iron pulley is to be screwed into a support above thebed, or, if the patient is to be transported, into the bow^of the am-bulance, so as to be perpendicularly over the middle of the shin,or nearly so. A cord, about as thick as the wire of the splint,passes over the pulley, and is reeved through a small tent-block,as seen in figure 187, by which, slipping it upward or downward. Fig. 187.
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the limb can Ix clevalod or dcpvessccl. Tlii-ough a loo)) in the endof the cord, another cord, ahout five (Vet in length, and having GUNSHOT WOUNDS. 369 at each end a double hook attached, is passed, and hansfs doublofrom the loop by its centre. On each side, about the centre ofthis double cord, guys of india rubber should be attached, andfastened to the sides of the ambulance, when the wounded manis to be transported. To apply the apparatus, the limb is to beadjusted, and the splints carefully laid along its upper surface.Strips of adhesive plaster, or bands soaked in starch, are to bepnssed, 01.e over the foot and around the splint, another aroundthe ankle, another beneath the knee, a fourth above the knee,and a fifth around the thigh, near the hip. The hooks of thesuspensory apparatus are now to be applied to the wire frame, asrepresented in the cut, and the limb is gently raised, so as tohang suspended in the slings. The requisite dressings can nowbe applied to the wounded parts,

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