BACKWOODS SURGERY
BACKWOODS
SURGERY &
MEDICINE
By
CHARLES STUART MOODY, M. D.
MCMX
OUTING PUBLISHING COMPANY
NEW YORK
Copyright, 1910, by
OUTING PUBLISHING COMPANY
Entered at Stationer's Hall, London, Eng.
All rights reserved
CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| I. | How to Treat Fractures, Sprains and Dislocations | 9 |
| II. | Caring for Burns, Cuts, Drowning, and Minor Accidents | 29 |
| III. | Medical Treatment of Camp Diseases | 51 |
| IV. | Serpent Wounds and Their Treatment | 73 |
| The Camper's Medicine Chest | 93 | |
HOW TO TREAT FRACTURES,
SPRAINS AND DISLOCATIONS
Backwoods Surgery andMedicine9
CHAPTER I
HOW TO TREAT FRACTURES, SPRAINS ANDDISLOCATIONS
Several years ago I stood beside a cotin a hunter's cabin in the heart of theBitter Root Mountains in Idaho, aftera three days' ride, and watched a valuableyoung life go out as the result of an unattendedcompound fracture of the thigh. Atanother time I amputated a leg to preventthe spread of gangrene from a simple cutacross the instep while the camper was splittingwood, an accident which, properlytreated, would have resulted at most only ina slight inconvenience. Once again, I transformedmy boat into a funeral barge andconveyed a young man who had only been in10the water three minutes back to his sorrowingparents dead, because his companionswere ignorant of how to resuscitate him.
These and many other instances that havecome under my observation of the sacrificeof lives from trivial causes, owing to a lackof knowledge, have impressed me with thevalue of a few suggestions on how to treatthe commoner injuries and diseases that maybefall those who seek recreation in the remotewilds.
The rules will necessarily be brief andfrom the nature of things easily followed.The woods loafer should learn them and beprepared whenever the occasion arises.Works on first aid, written ostensibly for theguidance of the laymen, are apt to presupposea far greater supply of surgical necessitiesthan the hunter cares to burden himselfwith. It is one thing to apply surgicalmeasures, having at hand a well-filled emergencybag, and quite another to render thesame assistance with nothing to depend uponbut your native adaptability. My intentionis to tell in the plaines