FIRST AID.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 30 May 1913, Page 5

FIRST AID.

LECTURE BY DR. A. HOSKING

Dr Archer Hosking continued his series of lectures under the auspices of the Masterton Branch of the St. John Ambulanco Brigade last evening, when there was a very large attendance of members. The lecturer took for his subject the treatment of fractures, dealing exhaustively with this, important branch of first-aid treatment. The first object in regard to fractures was to guard against further mischief, and especially to prevent a simple fracture from becoming compound or complicated. Another important point is the attending to the fracture immediately it happ3ns. Tile patient should not be moved until ~ie injured limb has been attended to. The limb should be made ag steady as possible to prevent any movement. The limb should be straightened with great care, and if shortening is observed, in the case of the fracture of a lower limb, the foot should be pulled until the limb is improved, and should on no account be let go of until secured m position by splints, otherwise there is great danger or the fracture becoming compound or complicated. The splints should be applied (when practicable) and the bandages placed po that this splints be kept perfectly firm, and' should be long enough to keeo the joints immediately above and below the fracture at rest. .. , Dr Hosking dealt with the .treatment necessary in different •fractures, the various treatments beißfe fully explained. The lecture was most mstructive and was greatly appreciated by the members of ilia class.