A manual of minor surgery and bandaging for the use of house surgeons, dressers and junior practitioners.
- Christopher Heath
- Date:
- 1862
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A manual of minor surgery and bandaging for the use of house surgeons, dressers and junior practitioners. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.
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![luay have accumulated upou thein, aud to apply I'rcsli clean dressings. These will be water-dressing, or ointment, according to the fancy of the surgeon, the former being the cleanest and pleasantest, and the latter having a lesser tendency to adhere to the edges of the wound. Some surgeons content themselves with laying a large piece of wet lint over the stump, w^hich can be covered with a piece of oil-silk and be wetted occasionally by the nurse; others prefer to apply the dressing in strips so as to support the stump, and then to put oil-silk and a bandage over it. In order to accomplish this, the strips of wet lint should be two inches wide, and long enough to reach six inches up on both aspects of the limb. With one hand the house-surgeon ])laces a strip beneath the limb and bolds it there, while with the other the end is brought up over the face of the stump and is laid upon the front of the limb. The moisture will give the lint sufficient hold to keep its place, while another strip is applied in the same manner to one side of it, but slightly overlapping, and the third upon the other side](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21511299_0127.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
