WOUNDS AND THEIR TREATMENT 



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present may be destroyed and no live ones admitted 

 by water in cleansing the wound. Any good com- 

 mercial antiseptic will do; or the old common ones, 

 like corrosive sublimate, one part in a thousand 

 parts of water, or carbolic acid, a teaspoonful in a 

 quart of water. Some powdered antiseptic like 



iodoform is very desir- 

 able for dusting into the 

 wound. 



Making the Bandage. 

 — Unless the wound is 

 of little consequence it 

 should be covered 

 and bandaged that no 

 foreign elements be ad- 

 mitted and that some 

 pressure may be given 

 to keep the broken parts 

 together. To secure this 

 effect absorbent cotton, 

 slightly moistened with 

 the antiseptic, should be 

 laid on the wound, and 

 firmly fastened by strips 

 of clean cotton cloth. 



By winding this ban- 

 dage around and about 

 the wound, dressed in 

 this careful way, the 

 wound will be protected, germs will be kept out and 

 nature, thus reinforced, will be enabled to make a 

 rapid recovery. Unless the bandage is disturbed in 

 some way there is no need of changing it under 

 twenty-four or thirty-six hours. If, for any reason, 

 the bandage is displaced, dress as before, and ban- 

 dage again. 



BANDAGING A LEG 



The method of applying 

 the bandage is shown here. 

 The bandage may be wrapped 

 directly over the hair or 

 over cotton saturated with 

 an -antiseptic and placed over 

 the wound. 



