Gunshot injuries, their history, characteristic features, complications, and general treatment : with statistics concerning them as they have been met with in warfare / by Sir T. Longmore.

Date:
1895
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Credit: Gunshot injuries, their history, characteristic features, complications, and general treatment : with statistics concerning them as they have been met with in warfare / by Sir T. Longmore. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    the bandage and pins. If two wounds, put the pad on one, and the piece of gauze on the other, and divide the waterproof/ Bearer’s dressing-case.—The field medical companion, pre- viously described, has only been designed for being carried by a sergeant or orderly in attendance on a surgeon. The medicines contained in it are such as should only be administered under the directions of a qualified practitioner. But all hospital attendants of the Medical Staff Corps re- quire some suitable means for executing the minor operations connected with surgical patients which they are taught to prac- tise. In removing fou 1 dressings, and performing various acts of attention to wounds and sores, these men in former days habi- tually used their fingers. Occa- sionally this led to mischief to the patients, and also to their attendants. Sores were some- times produced on the hands of the orderlies which were very difficult to heal. A hospital attendant’s pocket case should only contain the in- struments necessary to enable him to perform the minor sur- gical work which he is qualified to execute. To cut up a boot for removal from a wounded foot, to adapt and fasten a splint, to cut off a bandage on a director, to sew up linen coverings and bandages, to spread an ointment on lint, and such minor opera- tions, are things which he has been taught to do, and which it is his legitimate duty to do as occasion requires. In the field, too, the application of temporary dressings to wounds—sometimes in the absence of a surgeon, and occasionally, when many wounded require aid, in the presence and under the direction of a surgeon —is work which he has been prepared for, and which it is often very important he should perform. For the purpose of enabling hospital attendants to execute such duties properly, Surgeon Moffitt, for some time the Instructor of the Army Hospital Corps, designed a hospital attendant’s pocket- Fig. 62. Moffitt’s Dressing-Pouch for trained bearer of wounded.