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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    r () S T - M (JIIT E M li X AM 1X AT IO X. the hands at once, to suck the wound, and apply a piece of plaister until the operation is completed, when water-dressing is the best application. It is not generally from evident cuts that the occasional danger arises, hut from unseen scratches in a person out of health, and wliich are inoculated with the poison of some s])ccially diseased body. The record of the post-mortem appearances should be made at the time, and with the parts in view; for unless this ])lan is adopted, some important point is almost certain to be omitted. The easiest way is for the operator to dictate to a bystander, who can rouglily report the particulars, which should be care- fully written out immediately afterwards.