Improved hydrostatic beds, or, Invalid mattresses and cushions for placing on an ordinary bedstead (1856)
Hooper, William · London : William Hooper · leaf 25
Cushion remaining underneath the patient) ; on the con-trary, if there be too much, a portion may be taken out by drop-ping the tube into a vessel to receive it; but in case air is used itmust be blown in. The greatest comfort is obtained when the sidesof the Cushion are about ajs inch and-a-half… … norse-Shoe Shajped Cushion. Sspecially adapted as a preventive to Sloughing overtlie Sacrum, or -wlieii Urinals are worn in bed. pThe Editor of the Lancet expressed in his journal the horriblescenes he frequently witnessed (as Coroner for Middlesex) fromsloughing sores, and expressed a hope that…
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