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

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    finishing course 5. Course 6 is made similarly to course 3; course 7, to course 4 ; course 8, to course 5 ; course 9, to course 6 ; course 10, to course 7 ; course 11, to course 8 ; course 12, to course 9 ; and so on until the roll is exhausted, when you confine as usual. Uses.—In case of disease of both breasts where suspension is required; also for compression, and for the retaining of dress- ings. It is not a very stable bandage, besides being open to the objection of somewhat cording the neck. For retaining topical dressings, or for suspension, the triangular mammary bourse, see figure 75, would be preferable. Note.—Mayor’s system may be used in making this bimam- mary bandage by simply applying the Triangular Caps of the Mammae, one to each gland; the two apices being confined, as described upon page 90, or else tied or pinned together. This would then be known as The Bimammary Triangle. Two Bourses may also be employed; each being made and applied similarly to that one described upon pages 90 and 91. POSTERIOR FIGURE OF 8 OF THE SHOULDERS. (The Posterior “Star” Bandage of the Old Authors.) Description.—This bandage is made from a roller, eight yards in length by two inches in width. Fro, i i, Posterior Figure of H of the Shoulders. Application—Place the initial end, 1, at the middle and posterior part of the left arm. Confine it by two circular turns about the arm, 2 and 3. Continue in the same course till you reach the anterior sur- face of the arm, when you ascend obliquely across the axilla and