Identifier: ourhomephysician00bear (find matches)
Title: Our home physician: a new and popular guide to the art of preserving health and treating disease; with plain advice for all the medical and surgical emergencies of the family
Year: 1869 (1860s)
Authors: Beard, George Miller, 1839-1883
Subjects: Medicine, Popular
Publisher: New York, E. B. Treat & co. Chicago, Ill., C. W. Lilley (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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the flowing of the blood to cease.The substances thus wedged in should be maintained in their situa-tion by a neckerchief or a pocket-handkerchief, folded in theform of a cravat, a common band, or even a garter. If the meansalready pointed out should be insufficient to suspend the flow ofblood, the whole application should be removed, and the pressureof the finger alone relied upon, until the surgeon, or a person ac-quainted with the nature and treatment of such accidents, can becalled in. The wounded person could manage this himself in caseof need. The pressure of the fingers upon the same place during severalhours would suffice to arrest the most considerable hemorrhage;but as this continued pressing, if confided to one person, would be-come too painful to be long endured, two or three persons shouldbe employed to aid alternately. If, however, it should be found necessary, from the great depthor extent of the wound, to have the powers of restraining the hemor- STOPPING BLEEDING. 401
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STOPPING BLEEDING BY APPLICATION OF A TOURNIQUET. 26 402 SURGICAL ACCIDENTS AND EMERGENCIES. rhage under still more complete control, a tourniquet should beapplied to the limb. When this instrument cannot be obtained,(which is most likely to be the case,) it may be readily and effica-ciously replaced by the following means, namely, a handkerchieffolded in the form of a cravat, to each end of which is to be fasteneda band or garter, should be bound tightly round the upper part of thethigh or arm, care being taken to apply previously along the innerside of the limb, immediately beneath the bandage, a handkerchieffolded several times over, or a piece of linen doubled backwards andforwards of sufficient thickness to press upon the principal vesselwhich runs along this part, and which may be easily felt by itspulsation or beats. In the majority of cases, and particularly when the woundedperson is not very fleshy, the above method of exerting compressionupon the main artery would alone suff

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