Essentials of minor surgery and bandaging : with an appendix on venereal diseases. Arranged in the form of questions and answers / ... By Edward Martin.

  • Martin, Edward, 1859-1938.
Date:
1893
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Credit: Essentials of minor surgery and bandaging : with an appendix on venereal diseases. Arranged in the form of questions and answers / ... By Edward Martin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    folding one end of the bandage upon itself for about eight inches of its length. This doubling is again folded in, and the process is con- tinued till a central mass is formed. This core is made still larger by placing it upon the thigh and including one or two feet of the length of the bandage by rolling it between the thigh and the palm of the hand. When the centre is sufficiently large, it is taken be- tween the thumb and middle finger of the left hand while the con- tinuation of the strip passes between the thumb and the index finger of the right hand, By seizing the body of the bandage in the right middle, ring and little fingers, with the hand in supination and Fi<;. 2. Rolling the Bandage. carrying the latter to pronation, the cylinder is made to perform a half revolution, with the thumb and middle ringer of the left hand representing the supports of its axis. As the right hand is again carried to supination, a certain portion of the length of the bandage, passing between its thumb and index finger, is wound tightly upon the core ; again grasping the latter and repeating these movements the roller bandage is gradually completed. It should be so tightly wound that it is impossible to push out the core by a firm pressure of the thumb upon one end of the cylinder, and should be BO thoroughly cleared of loose threads that there is rio possibility of these impeding the surgeon when the bandage is applied.