A manual of minor surgery and bandaging for the use of house surgeons, dressers and junior practitioners.

  • Christopher Heath
Date:
1862
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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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    nient, and carrying it up over the original wash-leather ring so as to envelop tlie testis and keep all the verti- cal straps from slipping (fig. 15). So long as compression is efiected, the regularity of the strapping is a matter of secondary importance, and the house-surgeon must not be disappointed if he is unable to produce the picturesque appearance which is given in drawings nof taken from nature. In a day or so the testicle will be found to have shrunk, so that the stra])ping forms a loose bag around it, and will re- quire a repetition of the application. To strap a hreasf.—This is one of the most efficient modes of giving support to an inflamed or enlarged breast, and has the advantage over the bandage of not getting loose. The straps should be from one and a half to two inches wide, and about thirty inches long - Fig. Ifi. and the breast being held up by an assistant, the end of a strap should be firmly attached just above the