The whole art of bandaging / by Thekla Bowser.

  • Bowser, Thekla
Date:
[1914]
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: The whole art of bandaging / by Thekla Bowser. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    excellent method if you want to prevent the patient from walking, as he will then have a knot beneath the boot, but in other cases you can tie off above the foot. Stump (fig. 42).—For a bandage for the stump of a leg (or arm) you would fold a hem in the base of your bandage and place this under the stump, the Point pointing away from the limb. Take the Point and carry it over the dressing, which will be on the stump-end, and bring the Point up; tie the two ends above the Point, as shown in our illustration, and finally draw the latter down over the knot, as indicated by dotted line, and secure with a safety-pin.
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