. Minor and operative surgery, including bandaging . the preced-ing one, until the buttock iscovered, and the bandage is then finished by one or twocircular turns around the pelvis and abdomen (Fig. 78). Use.—This bandage is employed to hold dressings to theupper posterior portion of the thigh, or the buttock. Figure-of-eight Bandage of the Knee. Bolter Twoand a Half Inches in Width, Five Yards i)i Length.—Theinitial extremity of the roller is placed upon the left thighthree inches above the patella and secured by two or threecircular turns; then conduct the bandage over the outercondyle of th
. Minor and operative surgery, including bandaging . the preced-ing one, until the buttock iscovered, and the bandage is then finished by one or twocircular turns around the pelvis and abdomen (Fig. 78). Use.—This bandage is employed to hold dressings to theupper posterior portion of the thigh, or the buttock. Figure-of-eight Bandage of the Knee. Bolter Twoand a Half Inches in Width, Five Yards i)i Length.—Theinitial extremity of the roller is placed upon the left thighthree inches above the patella and secured by two or threecircular turns; then conduct the bandage over the outercondyle of the femur across the popliteal space to the innerborder of the tibia and around the anterior surface belowthe tubercle and head of the fibula, and make one circularturn ; the roller should then be carried obliquely across thepopliteal space to the inner condyle of the femur, crossingthe previous turn; then carry it around the front of thethigh to the outer condyle ; repeat these turns, ascendingtoward the knee from the leg and descending from the. Spica-bandage of buttock. 80 BANDAGING. thigh toward the knee, and finish the bandage by a circularturn over the patella (Fig. 79). This bandage may also be applied by making two circu- Fig. 79.
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