Accidents and emergencies : a manual of the treatment of surgical and medical emergencies in the absence of a physician / by Charles W. Dulles.

  • Dulles, Charles W. (Charles Winslow), 1850-1921.
Date:
1904
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Credit: Accidents and emergencies : a manual of the treatment of surgical and medical emergencies in the absence of a physician / by Charles W. Dulles. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    be abandoned until natural respiration is re-estab- lished, or a competent person has learned that the heart has ceased to beat. The cessation of the pulse at the wrist is not a sure sign of death. Life may be present when only a most acute and practised ear can detect the sound of the heart. In a moder- ately thin person, deep pressure with the finger ends just below the lower end of the breast bone may sometimes reveal pulsation in the aorta, the main artery of the body, when it can not be felt anywhere else. In the effort to institute artificial respiration, it is desirable to have the body inclined from the hips downward to the head, if possible ; and if a table can be secured the body may be placed on it so that the head hangs over the end, thus elongating the neck ; and the legs of the table furthest from the head may be raised as shown in Figs. 4 and 5. Tongue Traction.—A method of restoring respi- ration that sometimes proves successful consists in clearing out the mouth and then taking the end of the tongue in the fingers (a cloth will keep it from slipping), and drawing it fully and strongly forward about sixteen or twenty times a minute, at each time keeping it drawn out for a second or two, and then letting it go back to its natural position. This metliod has not proved as useful as was expected