Accidents and emergencies : amanual of the treatment of surgical and other injuries in the absence of a physician / by Charles W. Dulles.

  • Dulles, Charles W. (Charles Winslow), 1850-1921.
Date:
1897
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Credit: Accidents and emergencies : amanual of the treatment of surgical and other injuries in the absence of a physician / by Charles W. Dulles. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    If it does not, the part may be elevated and cold water or ice or snow or even vinegar may be applied. If there is oozing from a large raw surface, a towel may be folded, dipped in water as hot as the hand can possibly bear, lightly squeezed, so as not to drip, and firmly pressed upon the bleeding surface. This may have to be renewed once or twice, at intervals of a few minutes, but it usually acts like magic in this form of hemorrhage. Hemorrhage from the Veins is generally slow and steady, and the blood is dark. It rarely demands special effort to control it. When severe, the appli- cation of cold, and firm, continuous pressure upon and below the wound generally suffices to stop it. A folded linen or muslin cloth, bound on dry, with moderate firmness, or direct pressure with a finger, will usually stop any bleeding from a vein. Rupture of varicose veins in the legs may lead to dangerous hemorrhage, but this can usually be checked by ap- plying a pad of dry cloth and binding it firmly down upon the bleeding spot. In this case a ligature applied above the wound would make the matter worse; for the blood passes up in the veins and not down. A wound of the jugular vein, on the side of the neck, is usually followed by dangerous hemorrhage. This is to be treated with a pad and pressure. The latter can be best made with one finger laid above and one below the wound,