The practice of surgery . The four-tailed Bandage; of use in retainingdressings on any particular part of the piece of cloth split at either end ; the centralunsplit portion placed on the dressing. Thetwo posterior ends secured below the chin;the two anterior ends, overlapping these, crossat the occiput, and are also secured below thechin. 30 WOUNDS OF THE TEMPORAL ARTERY. the textures are unfavorable for safe advancement of the process ; theyare vascular, tense, unyielding, fibrous; the action is apt acute;the exudation is copious and rapid, accommodation afforded by the reci-pie
The practice of surgery . The four-tailed Bandage; of use in retainingdressings on any particular part of the piece of cloth split at either end ; the centralunsplit portion placed on the dressing. Thetwo posterior ends secured below the chin;the two anterior ends, overlapping these, crossat the occiput, and are also secured below thechin. 30 WOUNDS OF THE TEMPORAL ARTERY. the textures are unfavorable for safe advancement of the process ; theyare vascular, tense, unyielding, fibrous; the action is apt acute;the exudation is copious and rapid, accommodation afforded by the reci-pient texture is insufficient, tension ensues, and, as usual, aggravationfollows thereon; suppuration is speedy, and apt to be diffuse ; and thepus tends to burrow rapidly, and in all respects destructively, beneaththe fibrous structures. Secondly, the part affected is in close and dan-gerous proximity to the cranial contents; and these are apt to beinvolved in a secondary, but not less important, inflammatory Compress applied to the temporalartery, after arteriotomy. Wounds of the Temporal Artery. Arteriotomy.—Under certain circumstances it is deemed advisable toabstract blood, with a remedial object in view, from an artery, and from one situate in the upper part of the 4- The anterior branch of the temporal artery is usually selected. Being quite subcuta-neous, it is of easy access; and being alsoplaced immediately over resisting bone, it isfavorably situated for hemostatic suitable part of the vessel having been fixedupon, it is steadied by the fingers of the lefthand, while a lancet, moved by those of theright, is made to perforate the arterial tube,in an obliquely transverse direction. Theentrance and exit of the lancet are managedso as to make the wound of the integumentconsiderably larger than that in the arterialcoats, in order that there may be no obstruc-tion to the free escape of blood. A sectionof the wound, in fact, should resemble tha
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