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  1. ... 1st. a cushion or a tourniquet 40 to compress the arteries; 2d. a straight knife more or ... toes or fingers, it is not necessary to compress the arteries. AMPUTATIONS OF THE SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES. .imputation ...
  2. 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. ...
  3. ... 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 ...
  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. ... 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 ...
  6. ... 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 ...
  7. ... only re- source ; viz. instruments calculated either to compress the urethra, and intercept the passage of the ... steel de- scends, and terminates in a small compress, which is contrived to cover accurately the meatus ...
  8. ... with a piece of adhe- sive plaster, a compress, and a bandage. The peas, first inserted, need ... a knee-cap, or of a roller and compress, applied over the loose cartilage, when this body ...
  9. ... adopt with the greatest suecess, to hold a compress of lint over the end of the bone, ... vessels. At the end of this- period, the compress may gene- rally be taken away, the bleeding ...
  10. ... 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, ...
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