Illustrated lectures on ambulance work / by R. Lawton Roberts.

  • Roberts, R. Lawton.
Date:
1886
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Credit: Illustrated lectures on ambulance work / by R. Lawton Roberts. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    In the case of clean cut (or incised) wounds, should you be at home, near a chemist’s shop, or in any place where sticking plaster is close at hand, it is better to draw the edges of the wound well together, and strap them across with strips of plaster, before putting on your pad ; taking care to leave spaces between the strips, so as to allow room for any discharge to escape. Having applied your pad, and fixed it securely by put- Fig. 18.—Bandage for Foot. Directions.—For wounds of the foot, spread out an unfolded bandage; place the foot on the centre of it, with the toes directed towards the point; turn the point over the toes to the back of the foot or the instep ; raise the lower border behind the heel, draw the ends forward, crossing them on the top of the foot and tying on the sole, or crossing them again on the sole and tying on the top of the foot or around the ankle. ting on a triangular bandage or handkerchief in one or other of the ways, according to the position of the wound, which I have already described (p. 38, etc.), and illustrated by diagrams (Figs. 11 to 19), you should next see that the injured part is placed in an easy p>osition and projjerly sup]oorted, so that the patient may walk away—or be carried off, or assisted along— from the scene of the accident with as little pain and dis- comfort as possible, and without any aggravation of his injuries. Thus, if the upper limb is wounded, it should be placed in a sling (Figs. 13 and 14); and if it is necessary to place the patient in a lying down position (on a stretcher for instance), he should be laid either on his back, or on the uninjured side ; if the lower limb is injured, it should be E
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