he same locality
(p. 113). If a fragment of bone projects through the wound it may be
replaced after the cleansing just described, by grasping the lower
part of the limb and pulling in a straight line of the limb away from
the body, while an assistant holds firmly the upper part of the limb
and pulls in the opposite direction. During the whole process neither
the hands of the operator nor the boiled cotton should come in contact
with anything except the vessel containing the boiled water and the
patient.

FOOTNOTES:

[5] The engravings illustrating the chapters on "Fractures" and
"Dislocations" are from Buck's "Reference Handbook of Medical
Science," published by William Wood & Co., New York; also, Scudder's
"Treatment of Fractures" and "American Text-Book of Surgery,"
published by W. B. Saunder's Company, Philadelphia.

[6] It should be distinctly understood that the information about
fractures is not supplied to enable anyone to avoid calling a surgeon,
but is to be followed only until expert assistance can be obtained
and, like other advice in this book, is intended to furnish first-aid
information or directions to those who are in places where physicians
cannot be secured.

[7] For treatment of compound fracture, see Compound Fracture of Leg
(p. 116).

[8] This method follows closely that recommended by Scudder, in his
book "The Treatment of Fractures."

CHAPTER V

=Dislocations=

_How to Tell a Dislocation--Reducing a Dislocated Jaw--Stimson's
Method of Treating a Dislocated Shoulder--Appearance of Elbow when Out
of Joint--Hip Dislocations--Forms of Bandages._

=DISLOCATIONS; BONES OUT OF JOINT.=

=JAW.=--Rare. Mouth remains open, lower teeth advanced forward.

_First Aid Rule 1.--Protect your thumbs. Put on thick leather gloves,
or bind them with thick bandage._

_Rule 2.--Assistant steadies patient from behind, with hands both
sides of his head, operator presses downward and backward with his
thumbs on back teeth of patient, each side of patient's jaw, while the
chin is grasped between forefingers and raised upward. Idea is to
stretch the ligament at jaw joint, and swing jaw back while pulling on
this ligament. (Fig. 29.)_

_Rule 3.--Tie jaw with four-tailed bandage up against upper jaw for a
week. (Fig. 12, p. 90.)_

=SHOULDER.=--Common accident. No hurry. See p. 122.

=ELBOW.=--Rare. No hurry. See p. 125.

=HIP.=--No hurry. See p. 129.

=KNEE.=--Rare. Easily reduced. H