A manual of bandaging : adapted for self-instruction / by C. Henri Leonard.

  • Leonard, C. Henri (Charles Henri), 1850-1925
Date:
[1876?]
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Credit: A manual of bandaging : adapted for self-instruction / by C. Henri Leonard. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    CLASSIFICATION OF BANDAGES. In olden times bandages received their names from four sources, viz., 1st. Their authors. 2d. Their forms. 3d. Their uses. 4th. From some fancied resemblance to some article, or manoeuvre. Thus we have the Hippocratic rhomb; the crooked nose; the hare ; the quadriga, etc., as epidetic terms frequently tc be met with on persual of old authors. Nothing like a classifica- tion proper was attempted by them. Coining nearer to our own time, an attempt was made to put them all under the heads of their uses; such as compressive, retentive, reductive, etc. But this utterly failed, as almost any bandage could be used for any of the special purposes for which the others were employed. Gerdy finally brought forward his system, that of referring all to some general figure, as cross, circular, spiral, figure of 8, etc., adding, as a generic cognomen, the part to which it was applied; as, cross of the eye; cross of the head; spiral of the finger; figure of eight of the chest, etc. Mayor then produced his system of triangular and quadrilateral bandaging, naming them from the anatomical parts to which they were applied; a double name, in fact, the first being the part whereat the base of his triangle was applied, the other around or over which the ends were passed and fastened, e. g. ; occipitofrontal would indicate that the base of his triangle was at the occiput, and the two ends of the triangle had been passed around and tied at the forehead. This latter system of nomenclature is really the more scientific; but it is hardly convenient to adapt it to our roller bandaging, the system most universally employed.' The system of trian- gles and quadrilaterals of Mayor, though very convenient, will hardly come into general use, as it is impossible to get so [30]