Proceedings of the... Annual Meeting of the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States. (1897) (14781119385)

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Title: Proceedings of the... Annual Meeting of the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States.
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Association of Military Surgeons of the United States. Meeting
Subjects: Surgery, Military Medicine, Military Surgery, Military Medicine, Military Military Medicine
Publisher: St. Louis : The Association
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)



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e changein the capillaries to blue venous blood: thence in second Higgin-son (R. side of heart) back to lungs basin, where a little acidchanges it to arterial red and finishes the circle. It is a rough andready method, but the men seem to grasp the idea. The eighth lecture on Hemorrhage is perhaps the most im-portant of any. First there is a demonstration of the three kindsof bleeding—arterial shown bv a Higginson, venous through an Regimental Instruction in First Aid. 599 ordinary piece of tubing and capillary by a soaked piece of spongeunder an artificial wound. Following this the different methodsof arresting hemorrhage are explained: the construction and ap-plication of the tourniquets carried in the surgical haversack andhow a tourniquet can be improvised. A point is made of findingout w hether besides knowing, the men can impart their knowledgeof this subject: a note is made of those who can for future referencewhen the instruction of the whole battalion in self-help has to be
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Fig. 10. The Bearer Company in fiction—the Dressing Station. Personnel—\ Surgeon Major, 1 Surgeon Captain, 1 Sergeant Major, 1 Serjeant (Com-pounder), 1 Sergeant, 1 Corporal, 1 Cook, 3 Privates.—10. Equipment and Transport 1 Medical and Surgical Store Wagon, containing 1 PairEquipped Panniers and 2 Field Fracture Boxes ; 1 Bay-gage Equipment Wagon,1 Water Cart.i undertaken. Next the course of each of the principal arteries ismarked in chalk on the human model and the treatment of hem-orrhage in the different localities explained. As each particularcase is demonstrated the class perform it on one another: men hereand there are asked what they are doing and not only why they aredoing it but why some other plan was not adopted. In this wayand with the general knowledge that an artery always takes the tin addition to the personnel and equipment enumerated in connection with Figs.8, 9 and 10, we have in camp, 1 Q. M. Sergant, 2 Cooks, 3 Batmen and 1 Supernumerary.—7; 1 A. S. C. det