Elementary bandaging and surgical dressing : with directions concerning the immediate treatment of cases of emergency for the use of dressers and nurses / by Walter Pye.

  • Pye, Walter, 1853-1892.
Date:
1886
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Elementary bandaging and surgical dressing : with directions concerning the immediate treatment of cases of emergency for the use of dressers and nurses / by Walter Pye. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ally requires a smaller second triangle than tiie others, or a large one folded once will do. It is adjusted thus :—The belt being put on as before, A is fastened to it in the middle line in front, so that the middle of the base conies to the central point of the perinaium. The scrotum and penis are then slung u]3 and covered by bringing up B and C, turning them round the belt on either side of the middle line, from behind forwards, and passing under- neath first. They are then tied together in a bow or knot over the root of the penis, as is usually figured, or secured with pins to the belt, as in Fig. 10. Lastly, a tolerably elficient bandage for one or holli grolnti may be fashioned by folding a triangle as a scarf and then apply- ing it as a simple figiire of 8 (often wi'ongly called a spica), placing the middle of the scarf at the apex of the fork of the legs, carrj'ing the extremities along the fold of the groin in front, and of the but- tocks behind, crossing them at the great tro- chanter, and then carry- ing them round the pelvis to the opposite side, keeping below its brim, and tying tlie ends together (Fig. 11.) •run KOLLKR BANDAOE. I, ^. , , ,, , In the case of the ro/- l^^.^bcrotaL Lcunlwje. /„■ handa./e, to apply it neatly ,s to apply it well, but the art of using tliis OanUage. properly is one not to be learned without practice, even though it bo fre.-lv allowed th;it the Fj.i.