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

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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$J% third mil, r should be seven yards long and two and one-half inches wide. Its proximal extremity is fixed in the axilla of the sound side: the body of the bandage is then carried obliquely across the chest, Fig. 10. Desault—Third Ruller—Completed Bandage. over tlie top of the injured shoulder, down along the posterior sur- face of the humerus, and forward and upward around the upper fifth of the ulna (the forearm being flexed at a right angle and lying across the chest) to the point of starting. It is then continued pos- teriorly across the upper portion of the scapula of the sound side over the top of the injured shoulder, directly downward from this point, parallel with the humerus, to the upper fifth of the fore- arm, around the hack of which it is carried, and is then continued upward and backward across the dorsal surface of the thorax to the point of starting. These turns are repeated at least three times, each one exactly overlying and not overlapping its predecessor. The bandage maybe pinned at any convenient point. The dressing is finally completed by slinging the forearm at the wrist. The Desault bandage is applied in the treatment of fractures of$