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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    48 that end is to be crossed over tlie right tlmmb and in- serted between the tliird and fourth fingers of the rio-]u hand (fig. 13); the left hand at the same moment seizes the other end, and thus an interchange is effected and the ends of the threads are drawn out, as is being done in fig. U. There will now be no difficulty in drawino- the knot thus formed tight with the forefingers, or if preferred, with the thumbs (fig. 15). To complete the knot by making another tie, the same manoeuvre is to be repeated, taking care always to begin with the Fici. 14. opposite hand to that which began before. It is quite immaterial which hand begins the first part of the icnot, so long as the opposite one always begins the Jnir if V q '^ unerringly tied with the greatest n wt r .^^^ ''^''^y P^^^^^^y think that the above directions more resemble those for the perform- burit 1^,'°?''^ ^'^ ^'^^^^ ^^g^^^^ operation ; the L -e i ''t i T''^' ^ ^^'^^-^^^'^ ^hile to attain bonf P°«^^We dexterity in the use of his fingers, both for his own and In's patients' sake In whatever way the knot is made, great care