Girl's home manual of cookery, home management, home nursing and laundry

Empty all excreta immediately, use a disinfectant and flush closet well. Wash chamber or bedpan with boiling soapy water, dry, and place in readiness with a little disinfectant in it. Floor: . Take the pieces up with dustpan and a dampened brush, or use carpet sweeper, put damp paper on floor to keep dust down. Sweep so as to raise as little dust as possible. Burn refuse. Dusting: Dust all woodwork and floor with dampened cheesecloth. Burn this. ‘Tidy room, give flowers fresh water and rearrange. Leave blinds up as a general rule, except when patient is resting. Coal should be placed in paper bags or newspaper before being taken into a very sick person’s room to avoid all noise. All food dishes and medicine glasses should be removed from room when finished with, and if from an infectious patient they should be placed in a pail of water containing a disinfectant, and then be washed up separately from those used by the rest of the household. Articles Required in a Home for Emergencies in Nursing. Hot Water Bottle Absorbent Cotton Ipecacuanha Wine Bed Pan — Sticking Plaster Disinfectant Invalid Cup Bed Table Vaseline in Tubes Measuring Glass Sal Volatile Zinc Ointment Thermometer Castor Oil Linseed Meal Roller Bandages Olive Oil Mustard Old Linen Turpentine HEMORRHAGE Hemorrhage, or bleeding, is the loss of blood from an injured blood-vessel. There are three kinds of blood-vessels:— (1.) Arteries, which carry blood from the heart to all parts of the body. (2.) Veins, which carry blood to the heart. (3.) Capillaries, which connect the end branches of the arteries with the end branches of the veins. Blood from an artery: (a) is scarlet in colour; (b) escapes in spurts at each beat of the heart; (c) flows from the side of the wound nearest the heart. Blood from a vein: (ay VisVorva darkacoloun: (b) flows in a slow, continuous stream; (c) flows from the side of the wound furthest from the heart. Blood from a capillary: (a) is light red in colour; (b) flows in a continuous stream; (c) oozes up from all points of the cut arnt How to Stop Bleeding from a Capillary or Other Wound. (1.) Apply direct pressure to the wound to stop the bleeding. (2.) Cleanse the wound with very hot or ice cold water. (3.) Apply a pad over wound and then a bandage. For arterial and venous bleeding it is necessary, in addition to the above, to apply pressure by a tourniquet to the main trunk artery between the wounded artery and the heart, and for a vein apply tourniquet on side of wound furthest from heart. Send for a doctor in these cases, but do all that is possible to stop the bleeding. Triangular Bandages. Triangular bandages are used to make slings, to bandage the hand, foot, or head. They may also be used either as narrow or broad bandages, if first folded. Take a 38 inch or 40 inch square of cotton, fold diagonally in half and cut across fold. This makes two bandages. Triangular Hand Bandage. Place hand on bandage, with wrist on the centre of the longest side, bring the opposite point over the back of hand, cross the ends over this and tie around wrist. Carry the the loose point up over these and pin with safety pin. Triangular Bandage as Arm Sling. Place one end over sound side, let the other end hang down in front; bring the point of bandage behind elbow of injured arm, bend arm forward over middle of bandage, then carry the second end over shoulder of injured side and and tie to the other end at back of neck by a reef knot. Bring the point at elbow forward and pin to front of bandage. A Tourniquet. Fold a triangular bandage twice (or handkerchief), tie a knot in the middle, place knot over artery or-_vein as close to wound as possible. Tie the two ends