ABOUT SP.RAINS
« . A new method of treating spraina, is recommended by a Canadian Burgeon, Dr J. L, Scherer. Every one whose practice throws him m the way of treating opralns is frequently annoyed by the slowness with which the iDJared part recovers. The practitioner we have jast nambd being quite dissatisfied with the usual plang of treatment' wag, It is said, led to employ clay as an external dressing, He uses the ordinary brick clay, frea from gravel, dry and finely pulverised m a mortar, then mixed with just soffiolent water to form a thick paste. This is spread opon rauelln to the thickness of a quarter of an inch, applied to the part, and over this a rubber roller bandage is placed just tightly enough to keep the dressing from shifting, and to retain the caoisfcure. At the expiration of 21 or 36 houra the dressing moat be removed. The writer reports a number of oases of sprains m which this treatment was used with great satisfaction, the care of what were considered very severe sprains being effected m eight or ten day*, while the plain subsided m 11 cases after the first 24 houra! application of the cool, day freujtig, - «w* i
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1689, 17 October 1887, Page 3
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204ABOUT SP.RAINS Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1689, 17 October 1887, Page 3
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