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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    tii'st, BO that tlioy be kept in place by the circular ones, or, where it is desirable to avoid the unsightly- appearance of the bandage under tlie chin, the circular portion should be applied and fastened with a pin at the forehead; a turn can then be taken over the head and pinned again at the occiput, and so backwards and forwards two or three times. When it is advisable to apply pressure to the side of the head (wound of tem])oral artery, &c.), the following luodihcation of the circular bandage Avill be advantageous:—After a couple of simple turns roirnd the forehead and occiput, the bandage is to be made to ascend and descend alternately as it passes over the point where pressure is to be applied. The arrange- FiG. 31. ment is seen in fig. 31, and closely resembles the appearance produced by making ' reversed turns,' none