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Medical Chores
DIR By: Jinxed
Date: September 24, 2022, 11:45 pm
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Medical kits or chests:
Need to be checked regularly to make sure they are fully
stocked. Supplies can quickly be used up when treating after a
raid, contest, spar or one who should just not be in a kitchen.
In the kits, there are the following:
Instruments:
Physicians' Tape
Rep cloth sling
Cauterizing wand (to be used as a last resort only)
Scissors
Clamps
Small metal rods, threaded for splinting
Knife
Small steel needles
Metal clips
Tweezers
Pliers
Rubber tubing, tourniquet for drawing blood or starting an IV
Medications:
Green powder
Blue grass paste
Kanda salve
Black pepper
Water
Sterile saline
Willow bark
Healing salve
Sterile Items:
Rolled bandages
Large unthreaded steel needles
Large rep cloths
Small unthreaded steel needles
Small rep cloths
Large rep cloths
Various sizes of suture needles
Sterile water
Chest tube
Cleaning containers:
All containers first need to be cleaned with antiseptic soap and
hot water. Depending on the container, boiling water, green
herbal solution or distilled paga may be used for sterilization
of the inside. Seal conatiners tightly to keep them sterile til
used.
Making needles:
Make sure to get permission to use a quiva. Carve slender bits
of bone and sharpen one end. Drill an eye through the other end
with an awl.
Making gut thread:
Cut animal gut or sinew into very thin strips. Allow it to dry,
then peel bits of dried sinew into threads carefully. Roll and
store.
Making bandages:
Find rags that in good shape, do not use silk ones. Wash them,
rip them into long strips. Boil them for sterilization and allow
them to dry. Roll them up and store them.
Cleaning used cloths:
This can be done as a laundry chore, since the cloths have been
used in medical treatment, take caution. After laundering the
cloths, they need to be boiled to make sure that no particles
that could cause infection or illness are present. Once boiled,
they can be air dried, then folded and stored, or added to
medical kits. Cloths used on infectious conditions are best
burned.
Distilling water and paga:
This is done using the distilling equipment kept in the wagon.
It is a collection of tubes and beakers with a heating section
that is candle heated. The water or paga is poured into a
reservoir beaker at one end. The heat from the heating section
draws it into the tubing into another reservoir. The drops of
heated water or paga collect and drip into tubing leading to
another reservoir beaker where it can be poured into sterile
bottles and botas and stored. The solids and residues from the
paga and water are disposed of and the entire assembly carefully
cleaned with antiseptic soap and water.
Soap:
This is a basic animal fat formula. Depending on what is added
to the basic formula as to how it may be used. For personal use,
it should be milder to prevent irritation and damage to the
body. For medical use, needs to be mild but with strong
cleansing and astringent properties to clean and treat the body.
For cleaning chores and laundry, it may be made stronger.
Antiseptic soap is made using the following recipe:
Grease soap molds and set aside. Put on protective apron,
gloves, and eye gear that is kept by soap mold area. Place 2 1/2
pounds of bosk tallow (fat) in a large, lye resistant pot and
heat fat, stirring occasionally, until it reaches 120F to 125F.
Place16 ounces of water, preferably distilled and at room
temperature, in the pourable spout, lye resistant pitcher. Very
carefully measure in 5 1/2 ounces of lye and slowly blend it
into the water. Stir occasionally, but slowly, with a wooden
spoon until all lye is fully dissolved.
When the lye-water mixture is within the same temperature range
of the tallow (between 120F to 125F), begin pouring the
lye-water mixture into the melted tallow in a thin steady
stream, stirring occasionally. Keep stirring constantly and
slowly, but not over zealously. Air bubbles can be trapped in
the mixture, unless floating soap is desired.
After about 10-15 minutes, the mixture should start tracing,
which means that it has gone from clear to opaque, that it has
thickened. Pick up the spoon in the pot; the liquid soap should
drizzle off of it and leave a trace on the surface. If after 45
minutes to an hour, the soap mixture still has not started
tracing, then the measurements should be rechecked.
At this point, the soap mixture is ready to be poured or ladled
into the molds. Do so, seal the mold with wrapping or with the
cover to the mold, put some blankets or towels on it and place
it in a draft-free place. Let it sit for two days.
After two days, remove the molds lid and wrap and assess the
soap. With gloves, gently touch the surface of the soap, lye is
highly caustic, so do not touch the soap with hands. If the soap
is still very soft, let it sit overnight and the next day
unwrapped. If the soap is firm to the touch, yet still leaves an
imprint, take the soap out of the mold, cut into pieces, if
desired, trim off any excess, and place it on a drying rack, or
clean butcher block.
If individual soap molds were used, then wait another three
weeks for the soap to have completed its aging process. If large
molds were used and it is planned to slice it up into small
bars, then start checking the soap after about one week or so.
Once the soap is sliced, place the individual bars onto a drying
rack, or butcher block, and let the soap air dry for another 2
1/2 weeks until the surface of the soap is very hard to the
touch. Scrape off whatever ash might be on the bar's surface
with a sharp knife, get permission to use a knife, and the soap
is ready to use.
Making slavewine:
First, you must gather sip root. Then steep it in kalana for a
long time. Make sure not to use the better kalana for this. Stir
often and watch it carefully so it does not burn. It is then
cooled and stored in botas or bottles. Make sure to clearly mark
what it is and store in the pantry.
Making kanda salve:
Grind the kanda until fine then boil the kanda in water with
bosk lard until the mixture thickens slightly; pour into small
vials(jars), placing a cloth over the opening of the jar/vial to
strain out any bits of the leaves; allow to cool and
thicken(harden). Store most of the vials in the pantry of the
med wagon.
#Post#: 204--------------------------------------------------
Re: Medical Chores
DIR By: Jinxed
Date: September 24, 2022, 11:57 pm
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Cleaning the Medical Clinic and Work Rooms
Sweep the floors, scrub the floors, change bedding with sterile
sheet and clean furs, dust and prepare the medical wagon or work
room each day for medical patients.
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Laundry Sterilizing Medical and Blankets:
Place all dirty sheet and blankets used in the medical work
rooms in the laundry cauldron near the medical clinic filled
with boiling hot water and lots of soap then stir with the
paddle for about 15 ehn (mintues) in the cauldron. Then make
sure they are well rinsed in the caldron of sterile cold water,
wring out then hand on the drying lines before folding and
placing on the wagon storage shelves for use.
Making Medical Salves:
Combination of herbs, oils and botanicals cooked or prepared
with Animal lard or vegetable compounds and put in small sterile
containers.
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Medical Botas Sterilized, and Refilled:
Botas used for medical needs must be boiled to be sterilized,
rinsed and hung to dry between each use as well as needing
refilling and storing until they are used for healing.
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Restocking Shelves:
Old stock is rotated to be used first, restocking the back of
the shelves with fresh. Items need to be rearranged so shelves
have a neat appearance and for easy access to needed medical
items and supplies.
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