A manual of bandaging : adapted for self-instruction / by C. Henri Leonard.

  • Leonard, C. Henri (Charles Henri), 1850-1925.
Date:
1906
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: A manual of bandaging : adapted for self-instruction / by C. Henri Leonard. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Uses,—In cases of burns of the palmar surface of the hand, wrist or forearm, where vicious cicatricial contraction is to be feared, and in all other cases, where extension of the hand upon the forearm is desired, as in transverse wounds of the back of the wrist. FIGURE OF 8 FLEXOR OF THE HAND UPON THE FOREARM. Description.—This bandage should be six yards in length, by one and a half inches in width, and rolled into two equal heads. Application.—Similar to the preceding ; the plane of the bandage being placed at the palm of the hand, the member being flexed upon the forearm. Courses 1 and 2 are to be made as in the Extensor of the Figure of 8 of the Hand upon the Forearm, and the heads carried above the elbow and the remaining courses made in a similar manner to those of the preceding bandage. Uses.—In maintaining forward flexion of the hand upon the forearm, as in case of burns of the back of the hand, wrist and forearm, where vicious cicatricial contraction is to be feared. Also in cases of transverse wounds of the forepart of the wrist, where a tendency to gaping occurs. CARPO-OLECRANON CRAVAT. Description.—I. Two cravats, each eighteen inches in length. II. A third cravat, thirty-six inches in length. Application.—Tie one of the short cravats about the hand, as at a ; and then tie the other about the arm, above the olecranon process, as at b. Extend, now, the hand upon the forearm, and confine it by tying the long cravat, c, between, and to, them.