Tropical home nursing / by R.J. Blackham.

  • Robert J. Blackham
Date:
1921
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Tropical home nursing / by R.J. Blackham. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and carry the roller over the front of the knee-cap to the outer side of the knee and then back to the starting point ; then across the front of the knee, covering the lower loose margin of the turn above, then back to the starting point, and again across the front of the knee, this time catching the upper loose margin of the firsi turn ; continue these figures o: 8 above and below alternately. = Fig: No. 26. The Knee Bandage. 11. The Groin Bandages.—The groin is like the shoulder, a difficult part to bandage, and two varieties of the Spica have been devised for it, viz. :-— (a) The Ascending Spica. (6) The Descending Spica, (a) The Ascending Spica.—First slightly flex the hip on the affected side and then with a bandage 24 to 3 inches wide and 10 to 12 yards long, take a couple of spiral turns round the upper fourth of the thigh. Make reverses up the thigh till the groin is reached : then carry the bandage across the front of the groin outwards and upwarcs to a little above the hip joint, then across the
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