Accidental injuries, their relief and immediate treatment : How to prevent accidents becoming more serious / [Sir James Cantlie].

  • Cantlie, James, Sir, 1851-1926.
Date:
1887
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Credit: Accidental injuries, their relief and immediate treatment : How to prevent accidents becoming more serious / [Sir James Cantlie]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ■niK REVERSE SPIRAL BANDAGE. 70 (.'ii’cuuiferenco of tlie foroarm will soon l)ecomo appaivnt from the bandage not lying smoothly, when a reverse is made as follows ;—Idaoe the thumb of the right hand—that is, the disengaged hand— on the upper border of the bandage, ami unrolling three inches of the bandage beyond that point, allow it :o become slack and fall over directly towards the surgeon, his left hand coming from the position of supination to that of pronation. Now pull the bandage tight before raising the thumb, and, linally carrying it circumferentially around the outside of the limb, and changing it first to the right and then to the left hand, perform the same maniitula- lion again and again, until in fact the circumference <it the limb iliminishes towards the elbow. Every succeeding turn, in this, as in the circular method, niii.st overlap two-thirds of that previously a])plied, one-third of each turn must be ex])osed. 15v this plan the Itandage is applied thi-cefold to every [art. To bandage special parts by a combiuaiion of these ju.st described, namely, figure-of-eight, circular, and reverse sjnral, jiroceed as follows: — To apply a roller b.'indage lo the ham/, wrist, fure- (irm. elbow, and arm, cornmenct—following the rules in rer.oird to jiosition ;md method of holding the bandage—liy [ilacing the outsitle of the bandage