Volume 1

The standard physician : a new and practical encyclopaedia of medicine and hygiene especially prepared for the household / edited by Sir James Crichton-Browne [and others].

Date:: 1908-1909

Credit: The standard physician : a new and practical encyclopaedia of medicine and hygiene especially prepared for the household / edited by Sir James Crichton-Browne [and others]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$exposed to fracture are the long, tubular ones (upper arm, forearm, thigli, and lower leg). After having removed the clothes covering the seat of the fracture, which is best done bv rip])ing the seams, the limb should be wrapped in wadding or soft cloths ; o\’er this should be ])laced splints made from thin ]deces of wood, box-covers, cardboard, tin, bark, or anv other material that ma}’ be at hand (see h'igs. 96, 97, 98), and these spliips should ]'i(:. 96. lOueri^ency spliiit’for J'nicture of fort*;\nii. be tied with stri])s of gauze, linen, rags, shirt stri])s, suspenders, etc. If the fracture is a compound one, great care must be taken to a\’oid infection. An absolutely clean cloth, put in boiling water for ten to fifteen minutes and then wrung out, may be a])y)lied tightlv until the }di}'sician arrives. Injuries of bones bv gunshot wounds and b\' macliinerv are shown on Plate XYl., Figs. 3, 4, 5- I'lG. 97. lOiiergency .s!)]int for fracture of tlie le.e. BONE, INFLAMMATION OF.—As explained in the Introductory Chapters, the bone consists of three parts: the compact hone-mass, the perwsteii})i, and the bone-marrow. Inflammation ma\’ involve anv one of these parts, and is then designated accordingly ; or, as is usually the case, all three parts may be affected by a severe inflammation. Acute inflammation of a bone is generally characterised by a sudden$