Notes on surgery for nurses / by Joseph Bell.

  • Joseph Bell
Date:
1895
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Credit: Notes on surgery for nurses / by Joseph Bell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ncss in the dressings, v/hich are usually a most painful process. Both nurse and doctor will often be at their wits' end in bad burns to select the best, easiest, and most suitable dressings, so as to encourage the healing process. The benzoated oxide of zinc ointment spread on lint suits some cases ; others do well under water dressing carefully and most lightly bandaged. These are the cases that tax a nurse's patience and a doctor's cleverness, and we cannot have a better place than this for describing a process you will often have to watch and dress. Skill Grafting.—By this we mean the planting out over a raw surface of numerous little pieces of skin derived from a friend, or from another bit of the patient's body. Cutting off a small portion say as large as a threepenny piece, we at once divide it into a very large number of small scraps, each as far as possible consisting of all the skin layers ; these we at once plant out on the granulating surface, giving to each a plot of its ow^n as large as a shilling They do not require much dibbling in ; it is generally sufficient to push them into the granulations with the blunt end of a probe, and the less bleeding you induce the better. The difficulty now is to
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