Minor surgery, or, Hints on the every-day duties of the surgeon . 12 MINOR SURGERY. CROSSED OF BOTH BREASTS. Composed of a roller, ten or twelve yards longand two and a half inches wide, rolled either intoone or two heads. If the patient is very fat, itmay require a roller of fifteen yards. Application. — Carry the initial extremity ofthe roller behind the right axilla, thence by cross-ing the back, direct the cylinder over the left Fig. shoulder, pass obliquely across the front of thechest under the right breast, and under the right MINOR SURGERY. 73 axilla to the point of departure. Mak
Minor surgery, or, Hints on the every-day duties of the surgeon . 12 MINOR SURGERY. CROSSED OF BOTH BREASTS. Composed of a roller, ten or twelve yards longand two and a half inches wide, rolled either intoone or two heads. If the patient is very fat, itmay require a roller of fifteen yards. Application. — Carry the initial extremity ofthe roller behind the right axilla, thence by cross-ing the back, direct the cylinder over the left Fig. shoulder, pass obliquely across the front of thechest under the right breast, and under the right MINOR SURGERY. 73 axilla to the point of departure. Make thus twoor three obliques of the neck and axilla, coveringin the breast by the gradual ascent of each turn,and on reaching the back of the right axilla in thethird turn, pass transversely across the back to theleft axilla, under this and across the chest in frontof the left breast to the right side of the neck,thence across the back to the same axilla, the thus two obliques of the neck and thisaxilla, and on coming to the front of this axillapass transversely under bothbreasts to the rightaxilla, and under this to the point of should be taken that each convolution coversuccessively the breasts from below upwards,without being drawn too tight. If the course herelaid down be rigorously followed, we shall havean oblique of the neck and each axilla with ho-rizontal turns before and behind, and the turns ofthe ro
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