A manual of minor surgery and bandaging for the use of house surgeons, dressers and junior practitioners.

  • Christopher Heath
Date:
1862
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A manual of minor surgery and bandaging for the use of house surgeons, dressers and junior practitioners. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    to sit up in a cliair, or go about ou crutches; and a splint wliicli can be easily made in any ])lace where plaster is to be had. Sand-la(js are very useful adjuncts in the treatment of fractures, being laid on each side of the limb, with or without the addition of splints. Care should be taken that the material of which the bag is made is ■ sufficiently fine to prevent the sand from getting out into the bed, and the sand itself should be the finest sea-sand, and thoroughly dried.