If the stump can not be found, pledgets of tow wet with tincture of muriate of iron may be stuffed into the canal to favor the formation of clot and the closure of the artery.
The medicines used to coagulate the synovial discharge are best simply applied to the surface of the wound, on pledgets of tow, and held in place by bandages.
If the Bone be corrupted, a little Euphorbium may be apply'd; or else the small Pledgetssteept in the Tincture of Myrrh and Aloes; then the Ulcer may be handled as all others.
No pressure is needed; consequently, the pledgets of tow must not be too thick.
Following this, and before removing the tourniquet, the wound should be filled with pledgets of carbolized tow, and the whole tightly secured by a stout and broad linen bandage of not less than 6 yards in length.
The bleeding having nearly ceased, she was put into slings, the foot carefully washed with warm water, and immediately bound up with pledgets of tow saturated with the simple tincture of myrrh and tincture of opium, of each equal parts.
When hæmorrhage has accompanied the operation, this dressing should be removed on the following day, the wound dressed, and the pledgets of tow and the bandage renewed.
A necessary factor in the treatment is the employment of pledgets of antiseptic tow.
The exposed soft tissues are then dressed with pledgets of tow[A] soaked in alcohol and carbolic acid.
Then the stitches are to be cut, the tow taken out, and the wound dressed with yellow basilicum ointment, or one made with turpentine and yolk of egg, spread on pledgets of tow.
Then the stitches are to be cut, the tow taken out, and the wound dressed with yellow basilicon ointment, or one made with turpentine and yolk of egg, spread on pledgets of tow.
To cover the part with pledgets of lint smeared with ointment, and adhesive strap, can answer no good purpose, and the subsequent removal of such must endanger the adhesion.
For nosebleed it is often efficient when snuffed up the nose, or when pledgets of cotton are soaked in it and placed in the nostrils.
Then pledgets of cotton wool are packed into the bag formed by the cotton cloth after the stick is withdrawn.
Pledgets of cotton impregnated with the juice and packed in the cavities of carious teeth, relieve toothache.
Langley, a military surgeon, states that in Canara the natives employ the leaf juice in congestive headache, soaking pledgets of cotton with it and introducing them into the nasal fossæ; the resultant nose bleed relieves the headache.
Except when the auditory canal is completely blocked by inspissated pus, cerumen, or epithelial débris, it is sufficient to mop out the ear with small pledgets of cotton-wool.
In order to expel all the fluid from the tympanic cavity, the ear is afterwards inflated by Politzer’s method, and at the same time the fluid is mopped out of the ear by means of pledgets of cotton-wool.
The first two pledgets are useful afterwards for anatomical definition, and the third keeps them in place.
After the gauze has been removed, the ear is mopped out with pledgets of cotton-wool.
If possible the ear should not be syringed, but merely mopped out with pledgets of cotton-wool moistened with boric lotion and then dried, the gauze drain being afterwards inserted.
It is of the utmost importance that the field of operation should be kept dry, if necessary by repeatedly mopping out the canal with pledgets of cotton-wool soaked in adrenalin solution.
By careful manipulations with the probe or by stroking the edges with tiny pledgets of cotton-wool, these rough surfaces may be smoothed down.
It is a better plan to moisten pledgets of cotton-wool or ribbon gauze with a 10% solution, and place them in direct contact with the part to be operated on.
After the ear has been thoroughly cleansed, a large aural speculum is inserted within the meatus and the auditory canal dried with pledgets of cotton-wool.
Small pledgetsof ribbon gauze, if gently rubbed along the surface and into the corners, will detach every scrap of diseased mucosa.
This is repeated with fresh pledgets until the meatus is cleansed.
The pledgets of cotton-wool placed in the nose at the beginning of the operation now come in to help as guides.
The cotton-wool pledgets are removed from the nose.
An aural speculum is then gradually worked into the auditory canal, which is gently mopped out with small pledgets of cotton-wool, and the deeper parts are carefully inspected.
The medicinal treatment consists in removing the discharges from the nostrils and eyes with pledgetsof absorbent cotton that are soaked with a four per cent water solution of boric acid.
Liquid preparations are applied withpledgets of cotton, oil cans, or atomizers.
Other investigators state that they have successfully infected cattle by placing, in the nostrils, sponges or pledgets of cotton saturated with such serum.
The after-treatment consists in tamponing the wound with pledgets of iodoform gauze or a mixture of iodoform 1 part and glycerin 4 parts.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pledgets" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
