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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    bicarbonate) in the proportion of a heaping table- spoonful in a pint of water; or the soda may be powdered on without using any water. This usually allays the pain more effectually than anything else that is known. Carron oil is a good application for such burns. So is the white of egg; and in an emergency damp earth might be used, or soapy water, or white lead paint. A good application for burns may be made of strips of linen or muslin soaked in a mixture of a teaspoonful of carbolic acid, two tablespoonfuls of glycerine, and a pint of olive oil, or in carbolized vaseline, obtained at a drug store. Anything may be used which will prevent friction and exclude the air; but nothing should be used which will stick in cakes and prevent after-exami- nation, or make this very painful. For this reason flour and cotton-batting, though often recommended, had better not be used. For most burns, simple cool water is better in every way than these. Indeed, for any but the most extensive burns it is one of the best remedies. An arm or a leg can be immersed in it and left there a long while with great advantage. Burns with Acids must be deluged with water and then treated like other burns.* Burns with Caustic Alkalies, such as soap-lye, should be treated with an application of vinegar, followed by applications of oil.* * For the treatment of cases in which acids or alkalies are taken into the mouth or swallowed, see under Poisons.''