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Show SI' ‘ESTITUTE TOR TIIE TOURNIQUET. SUBSTITUTE FOR THE TOURNIQUET. girth, and a small piece of stick, a very sufficient tourniquet for any purpose may he contrived, ‘~. 9 5d r'fl "Vii" "" ‘ 405w mmn ‘ ‘! \ slightest .: .11 , , the . 'Lie and most dangerous hzemorrhagy may be stopt by introducing a dossil of lint into the wound, over this a compress and sponge, forming the graduated compress, and binding all down with these simple straps. By this means the circulation will not he totally interrupted, which it may otherways i e, on account, perhaps, of a wound in a trifling artery, or a venous: bleeding. But even this is only a temporary securit y, wherever we bind up a limb to suppress the hat:morrhogy from a considerable vessel, the roller should be ap- h- «~2- _.......~_4 -A_§'I-Kf¢ _:_.‘,,,...i . a: "4..A plied with a considerahie degree of lightness to the limb, below the part firmly compressed ; and after all it must be curefuily watched, or the swelling which naturally comes upon the limb uiil have an effect equal to the most powerful draw-in; m" the compressing bondage, and produce gangrene. it h an the wound is open, or the limb shattered, no better tomnizgurt can be required than a towel, or strong pockethmdigerchiei : first throwing a, double knot on the middle of it, we apply the knot on the course 01' the main artery of the limb, and tying the (nets of the handkerchief round the limb, T. e include the handle of a sword in the doubling, and twist it until the bleedii g stops. From the iltlp of a saddle, the We have to recollect the hidden danger of bleeding in gunshot wounds, at the period of the separation of the Slt')llgi1<.-~ For it often happens that a great vessel, or only a side of it, has been deadened by the passage of the bullet, and it is opened hy the separation of the slough. The period of danger is marked by the loosening,r of the slough, and the heaping discharge which precedes it; and this is generally hetu ten the seventh and the tenth days Here the judy-ment of the sur‘ "' See Discourses on U'aznuls, p. 209. |
