The Thigh, And Entire Leg From The Fork To
The Ankle, I Carefully Secured To The Long Splint With Three Rows
Of Bandages, The First Plain, And The Last Two Layers Were Soaked
In Thick Gum-Water.
When these became dry and hard, they formed
a case like an armour of paste-board:
Previous to bandaging the
limb in splints, I had bathed it for some hours with cold
applications.
On the following morning I expected to find my patient in great
pain; but, on the contrary, he complained very little. His pulse
was good, and there was very little swelling or heat. I gave him
some cooling medicine; and the only anxiety that he expressed was
the wish to get well immediately, so as to continue the
expedition.
The Arabs thought that I could mend the leg of a man as though it
were the broken stock of a gun, that would be serviceable
immediately when repaired. As these people never use spirituous
liquors, they are very little subject to inflammation, and they
recover quickly from wounds that would be serious to Europeans.
I attended to Jali for four days. He was a very grateful, but
unruly patient, as he had never been accustomed to remain quiet.
At the end of that time we arranged an angarep comfortably upon
a camel, upon which he was transported to Geera, in company with
a long string of camels, heavily laden with dried meat and
squares of hide for shields, with large bundles of hippopotamus
skin for whip making, together with the various spoils of the
chase.
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