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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    PLASTEK-OF-PARIS BANDAGE. 150 ' lint bandage ' of Mr. Ewen is admirably suited for the pm-pose), the drj powder is to be rubbed into its meshes on both sides with the palm of the hand, and the bandage is then to be loosely rolled. These pow- dered bandages may be kept rolled and always ready, if they are preserved in a covered jar so as to exclude the ail. When required, the bandage should be placed in a basin of water for a couple of minutes, that it may become thoroughly wetted, and should then be applied as rapidly as may be upon the frac- tured limb, which must be carefully held by the assistants. The bandage may be applied directly upon the skin, and, as far as possible, 'reversed turns' should be avoided, but each fold of the bandage should thoroughly overlap the one below. The band- age should be long enough to go once up the limb and then down again ; and it will materially strengthen the casing if the operator has a little of the plaster mixed with water to the consistence of cream, by his side, and applies some of it with the palm of the hand between the two layers. If the interior of the band- age should not have been sufficiently wetted, it can be readily dipped into the basin again, and a little of the fluid plaster applied over aU will fill up any irregu- larities. Second method.—If the powdered bandages are not already prepared, the following will be the readiest way of applying the bandage. Some cold water being placed in a basin, the plaster is to be shaken in, and the water well stirred until it becomes of the consist- ence of cream; then the bandage, being placed in another basin of water, that it may become wetted as it unrolls, the operator is to commence rolling it in the basin containing the plaster, which will thus become effectually applied to its surfaces. The bandage will be api^lied to the limb in the manner described above, and some of the mixed plaster can be used to fill u]) the interstices. When the surface to be covered with the plaster