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  1. ... formed. When this accident happens, a pad or compress is laid firmly over the wounded part, so ... these cases pressure by means of a firm compress should be made upon the artery above and ...
  2. ... THE HEAD, parts by adhesive piasters.1" A compress dipped in cold water and a retentive bandage ... of substance, a simple dressing: for example, a compress spread with cerate and a retentive bandage. The ...
  3. ... each side of the wound, and wrap a compress around all, in such a way that the ... water, and when clean adjust new plasters with compress rollers, and bandage as before. If in any ...
  4. ... through the canula. Then a bandage (with a compress) is applied firmly around the abdomen. Some practi- ... it is desired to check the bleeding a compress and bandage are resorted to. Purgatives act as ...
  5. NLM Digital Collections - The principles and practice of surgery 
    Publication: Philadelphia : Lea Bros. & Co., 1889
    ... toe ; it results from wearing narrow shoes, which compress the foot and cause the soft part of ... by* elevating the limb and applying a firm compress. The Radical Treatment may be employed if the ...
  6. ... the bleeding point by means of the graduated compress, or by the use of serre-fines, or ... will be again re- ferred to. The graduated compress is made by laying together a number of ...
  7. ... and to draw it so tight as to compress the veins 596 gunn's domestic medicine. of the ... be stopped, and you must next apply a compress, made by twice doubling a piece of lmen, ...
  8. ... teau: see Malleus. APOPIES'MA, from cnronittw,' I compress.' Hippocrates uses the term to signify a fancied ... formed of a towel, napkin, or some large compress, folded three or four times; the extremities of ...
  9. ... tumours, formed outwardly, and of sufficient size to compress the windpipe, but not admitting of immediate removal, ... from the granulatory process. Light dressings of lint, compress, and a T bandage were applied for the ...
  10. NLM Digital Collections - A treatise on fractures, luxations, and other affections of the bones 
    Publication: Philadelphia : Published by Kimber & Sharpless [and 5 others], 1817
    ... the an- cle, by surrounding, with a thick compress, the lower part of the leg, where the ... a half long: 8thly, one long and thick compress, and a sufficient number of bits of tape. ...
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