The ship captain's medical guide / compiled by Harry Leach ; revised by William Spooner.

Date:
1900
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: The ship captain's medical guide / compiled by Harry Leach ; revised by William Spooner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    rounded surface ; the elbow sticks out from the side, and the patient often holds it with the other hand to ease the pain; there is often great pain and numbness of lingers, and if you put your hand into the man’s arm-pit, a round hard lumj:) is felt. Treatment.—Put the patient on his back, take otf your boot, press your heel well into the arm-pit, seize the patient’s hand, pull steadily, and the bone will slip into the soclmt with a loud snap. If the man l)e very muscular, a clovc-liitch may l^e taken round llie arm just above the elbow to aid a steady pull. (2) Eldow.—The arm is bent more or less at an angle, and cannot be straightened, and the bones are ])oth felt and seen sticking out at the back part of the joint. Ireatment.—The patient having been seated, one man must take hold of the middle of the upper half of his arm, and another of his wrist. They must pull against each other, and a third should
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