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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    13() applied, niid the turns may then be commcuccd and carried along the outside of the arm. Around the elbow-joint the hgurc-of-cight turns should Ije re- sumed and applied as on the Ivuee, or as figured in the application of a bandage after vena?sectiou (]). 83), and the turns may be again resumed in the upper arm. If it should be desirable to include the fingers at the same time as the arm, this will be best accomplished, first, with a small spiral bandage as shown in fig. 26, and the above can afterwards be applied over it. Sandarjc for the axilla.—The bandage is fixed by a couple of turns round the upper arm from within outAvards, and is then brought imder the axilla and over the pectorals to the top of the shoulder. It next, foi'ms a loop around the root of the neck, and crossing itself is brought behind the shoulder to the axilla again. These figure-of-eight turns may be repeated as often as necessary, but it should be remembered that the one first applied is to be the highest up of the set. This bandage may, if it is preferred, be carried under the opposite arm instead of round the neck (fig. 29).