A manual of minor surgery and bandaging : for the use of house-surgeons, dressers and junior practitioners / by Christopher Heath.

  • Christopher Heath
Date:
1862
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Credit: A manual of minor surgery and bandaging : for the use of house-surgeons, dressers and junior practitioners / by Christopher Heath. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    21G TO STBAP A BREAST as it can be borne, so as to prevent the gland slipping up again, and this sti-ip should go twice round ; or if the plaster is not at hand, a piece of lint may be put beneath common strapping to protect the skin. Strips of ordinary strapping, half an inch wide, are then to be cut of sufficient length to reach from the ring of wash-leather vertically over the testis and back to the same point on the opposite side, and these should be applied all round so as to envelop the testis com- pletely. The simplest way is to apply one or two in front first, and then similar ones at right angles, as is shown in the engraving (fig. 81), and afterwards to fill in the intervals. A long strip of plaster, half an inch wide, is then to be wound horizontally over the other straps, beginning from as near the bottom of the testicle as convenient, and carrying it up over the original wash-leather ring, so as to envelop the testis and keep all the vertical straps from slijDping (tig. 82). Three or four of these long strips will probably be required. So long as compression is effected, 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 not taken from nature. In a day or two the testicle will be found to have shrunk so that the stra]Dping forms a loose bag around it, and will require a repetition of the appli- cation. 2^0 strap a breast.—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 : and the breast being held up by an assistant, the end of a strap should be firmly attached just above the spine of the scapula of the opposite side, then brought over the clavicle, under the diseased breast, across the