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Title: Prevention of disease and care of the sick and injured: medical handbook for the use of lighthouse vessels and stations, 1915
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: United States. Bureau of Light-Houses United States. Public Health Service Stimpson, W. G. (William Gordon), 1865-1940 Woodward, Rell M., 1862-1915
Subjects: Medicine, Naval First aid in illness and injury
Publisher: Washington, Govt. Print. Off.
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
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to tear a strip of muslin 36 inches long and 6 incheswide. Each end is split to a point near the center. The upperstrip is now passed in front of the chin and tied at the back of thehead (fig. 51), and the lower strip is then brought under the chinand tied over the head (fig. 52). If the jaw is to be held in placeseveral days before a doctor can be reached, it is best to cut a pieceof pasteboard 10 inches long and 4 inches wide and slit it at theends (fig. 53). This is then moistened and molded to the chin (fig.54). This mold when padded and held in place by the split band-age, or preferably by a starch bandage applied along the same lines,will hold the jaw very well until surgical aid can be secured. Chest or belly bandage.—In a burn or scald on the chest, belly, orback it sometimes taxes the ingenuity of an expert to keep a suit- FlG. 46. 1 The Esmarch triangular bandage shown on p. 104 is reproduced by courtesy of Johnson & Johnson,New Brunswick, N. J. 104 LIGHTHOUSE SERVICE.
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MEDICAL HANDBOOlto 105 EXPLANATION OF NUMBERS SHOWN ON FIGURES IN ILLUSTRATION OF ESMARCH BANDAGE (fig. 47). 1. Broken leg below knee and at ankle. Umbrella used as splint. 2. Broken arm—upper arm and at wrist. Rough wood splints used. 3. Hand bandage. (See also No. 7.) 4. Wide sling for arm. 5. Upper-arm bandage. (See also No. 18.) 6. Tbigb bandage. 7. Hand bandage. (See also No. 3.) 8. Eye bandage. 9. Scalp bandage. * 10. Chin and face bandage. 11. Knee bandage. 12. Wrist and fore-arm bandage. Rough wood splints used. 13. Bandage for back. 14. Elbow bandage. 15. Foot bandage. 16. Splint and bandage for broken thigh and ankle. 17. Splint and bandage for broken leg. 18. Arm bandage. 19. Chest bandage, rear view. 20. Chest bandage, front view. 21. Skull bandage. 22. Forehead bandage. 23. Heel bandage. 24. Narrow sling for arm.26. Fore-arm bandage.29. Throat bandage. 31. Hip bandage. 32. Shoulder bandage. 33. Stopping artery bleeding of arm with hand pressure. 34. Stopping artery blee

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