Medicine chest and instructive advice : with directions for ships and family use / prepared and put up by George W. Hoppin.

  • Hoppin, George W.
Date:
1823
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Credit: Medicine chest and instructive advice : with directions for ships and family use / prepared and put up by George W. Hoppin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    DIRECTIONS. NO. 1. Basilicon Salve.—This is the usual dressing in all fresh wounds unattended with much bleeding, and in ulcers and old sores. Preliminary Directions respecting Wounds.—— Whenever a person is wounded, the first tiling to be attended to is the discharge of blood. If that flows freely, and with a jumping motion, like the beating of a pulse, and especially if attended with fainting, it claims the earliest attention. It shews an artery is opened ; if it is small, you may stop it by lint laid into the wound, wet with Balsam Command, No. 3, and confined by pressure; if that does not stop it, swab out the blood, and lay a bit of the blue vitriol, No. 5, directly in the mouth of the bleeding vessel, and hold it there an hour or two, or more, and then apply the ban- dages over it. But if the artery is large, and if by the use of the above methods you do not succeed, you must have recourse to the crook- ed needle. At the same time, if the wound is on any of the limbs, apply a string on the limb above the knee, or elbow, as the case may be, so tight as to stop the circulation, and of course the bleeding at the wound ; then clean the wound from blood, be ready with the needle, let an assistant loosen the string and observe ^lf]