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SCOUTING FOR GIRLS 
Symptoms — 1. When you look at the injured part 
it does not look like the other side. 
2. If you attempt to move it you find it will no longer 
move as a joint does, but is stiff. 
3. There is great pain and rapid swelling usually. 
4. There may or may not be black and blue spots 
around the joint. 
Treatment — Send for a doctor at once. While wait- 
ing for the doctor, place the patient in the easiest posi- 
tion possible, and apply hot or cold cloths, frequently 
changed, to the injured part. / 
In dislocation of the jaw it may be necessary for 
someone to try to replace it before the doctor arrives. 
The mouth is open and the jaw fixed. The patient may 
even tell you he has felt the jaw slip out of its socket. 
Wrap your thumbs in cloth to prevent biting when the 
jaw snaps back in place. Place the thumbs on the tops 
of the lower teeth on each side, with the fingers outside, 
and push firmly down until the head of the bone can 
slip over the edge of the socket into place. As you feel 
the bone slipping into place, slide your thumbs out to the 
inner side of the cheek to prevent biting when the jaws 
snap together with the reducing of the dislocation. 
(b) Fractures — Broken bones — There are two classes 
of fractures: 
1. Simple — In a simple fracture the bone is broken, 
but the skin is not broken; that is, there is no outward 
wound. 
2. Compound — In a compound fracture not only is the 
bone broken, but the jagged ends pierce through the 
skin and form an open wound. This makes it more 
dangerous as the possibility of infection by germs at 
the time of the accident, or afterward, is added to the 
difficultv of the fracture. 
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