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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    bem<^ applied on tlie left from below upwards, and on the right from above downwards, and crossing alter- nately on the front and back of the chest. The order woidd, of coui-se, be reversed, if the bandage were applied in the opposite direction round the waist at first, and it is immaterial which method is followed. To landage tlie finger (fig. 26).—A bandage, three quarters of an inch wide, will be most convenient, and a couple of turns (leaving out a loose end) should be made round the wrist; the bandage is then brought over the back of the hand, and taken in a series of Fig. 2G. / spirals to the tip of the finger, which it surrounds, and is brought back by regular spirals in the opposite direction to the root of the finger again; crossing the former bandage on the back of the hand, it finally surrounds the wrist, and can be finished off by making a knot and bow with the loose end. This bandage can be carried over any number of fingers by passing down them in the same way as above, after having made a turn round the wrist. The ])€nis may be bandaged in a similar way, but it will be sufiicient generally to commence at the root of that organ, without going round the groins.