Illustrated lectures on ambulance work (1888) (14764282902)

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Title: Illustrated lectures on ambulance work
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Roberts, R. Lawton
Subjects: Military Medicine Great Britain. Army Medicine, Military First aid in illness and injury Transportation, Military War First Aid Transportation of Patients
Publisher: London : Lewis
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School



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these particulararticles always about you. You must be prepared to act in-dependently in any emergency, and be quick to utilise anymaterials, no matter what, so that they are close at hand andsuitable to your requirements. Thus you may make a padof a wine-cork or a bung, a smooth stone, a billiard, baga-telle or racket ball, a ball of worsted or a reel, a piece ofwadding, tow, lint, linen, flannel, or cloth rolled up tightly,or a knot on the bandage around the limb will suffice. In-stead of the triangular bandage a handkerchief or scarf, abelt, brace, or strap of any kind would do. On a battle-field 66 AMBULANCE LECTURES. there are always plenty of straps, belts, and pieces of accou-trements, etc., suitable for the purpose. To tighten yourtourniquet you could use on the battlefield bayonets, scab-bards, rifle-cleaners, and fragments of lances, etc. ; while incivilian life there are usually available such articles as sticks,parasols, umbrellas, pencils, wooden measures, knife-handles,
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Fig. 24.—-Compression of the brachial artery by Volkers stick tourniquet. large keys, rulers, pieces of wood, or branches of trees. Thepolice could use their truncheons, cricketers their wickets,billiard-players their cues, and tennis-players then rackethandles. Should you be unable in a case of emergency to ARTERIAL BLEEDING FROM WOUNDS OF THE FORE-ARM. 67 improvise a pad, you must not lose time, but at once tie yourscarf or handkerchief round the arm, and twist it tighter andtighter with your stick until the bleeding is stopped. Youmay improvise a tourniquet in another way, viz., by takingtwo pieces of stick about eight inches long, and placing oneacross the inside and the other across the outside of the arm,and tying them tightly together by a couple of handkerchiefsor straps (Fig. 24). By this plan the artery is compressedbetween the inside stick and the arm-bone. This arrangementgoes by the name of Volkers stick tourniquet. The same re-sult is attained by placing one stout stic