Identifier: homemedicallibra01wins (find matches)
Title: The home medical library
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Winslow, Kenelm, 1863-
Subjects: Medicine, Popular Medicine
Publisher: New York, The Review of reviews company
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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ng at the spine, five inchesbelow the fracture, and continuing to apply the strips,overlapping each other about two inches, until the bandis made to extend to about five inches above the pointof fracture, all the strips ending in the line of the armpitof the uninjured side. (Fig. 8.) If surgeons plaster cannot be obtained, a strongunbleached cotton or flannel bandage, a foot wide,should be placed all around the chest and fastened assnugly as possible with safety pins, in order to limitthe motion of the chest wall. The patient will oftenbe more comfortable sitting up, and should take carenot to be exposed to cold or wet for some weeks, aspleurisy or pneumonia may follow. Three weeks arerequired for firm union to be established in broken ribs. COLLAR-BONE FRACTURE. First Aid Rule.—Put patient Hat on hack, on levelbed, with small pillow between his shoulders; placeforearm of injured side across chest, and retain it sowith bandage about chest and arm. 85 Collar-Bone Fracture BREAK NBONE
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Fig. 9.A BROKEN COLLAR BONE (Scudder). Usual attitude of patient with a fracture of this kind; note lowering andnarrowed appearance of left shoulder. Z6 fV ins low and Ferris Fracture of the collar bone is one of the commonestaccidents. The bone is usually broken in the middlethird. A swelling often appears at this point, andthere is pain there, especially on lifting the arm upand away from the body. It will be noticed that theshoulder, on the side of the injury, seems narrowerand also lower than its fellow. The head is oftenbent toward the injured side, and the arm of the sameside is grasped below the elbow by the other hand ofthe patient and supported as in a sling. (See Fig. 9.)In examining an apparently broken bone the ut-most gentleness may he used or serious damage mayresult. Treatment.—The best treatment consists in rest inbed on a hard mattress; the patient lying flat on theback with a small pillow between the shoulders and theforearm of the injured side across the chest. Th

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