. Minor surgery and bandaging, including the treatment of fractures and dislocations .. . Liebreichs eye bandage. 88 SPECIAL BANDAGES. to the extremities of which are sewed tapes. It may beapplied transversely so as to cover both eyes, or obliquelyso as to cover one eye only, and is secured by the tapescarried around the head and tied over the forehead.(Fig. 76.) Use.—This bandage is used to hold compresses or dress-ings to the eye or eyes, and the elasticity of the flannelpermits of its being applied so as to make a variableamount of pressure. Bandage of Scultetus. Fig. Bandage of Sculte
. Minor surgery and bandaging, including the treatment of fractures and dislocations .. . Liebreichs eye bandage. 88 SPECIAL BANDAGES. to the extremities of which are sewed tapes. It may beapplied transversely so as to cover both eyes, or obliquelyso as to cover one eye only, and is secured by the tapescarried around the head and tied over the forehead.(Fig. 76.) Use.—This bandage is used to hold compresses or dress-ings to the eye or eyes, and the elasticity of the flannelpermits of its being applied so as to make a variableamount of pressure. Bandage of Scultetus. Fig. Bandage of Scultetus. This is a compound bandage, consisting of a number ofpieces of muslin, and may be prepared from a two and a FLANNEL BANDAGE. 89 half or three-inch roller by cutting off strips long enoughto encircle the part about one and one-third times. Thesestrips are placed under the part in such a manner that thefirst piece shall be overlapped by the second, the second bythe third, and so on from below upward; the pieces arethen brought around the limb, and the extremities of thelast piece are secured by pins. (Fig. 77.) This bandagewas formerly much employed in the treatment of com-pound fractures to secure dressings to the wound, andpossessed the advantage that when a single strip becamesoiled it could be removed without disturbing the wholedressing, the new strip to be introduced being pinned tothe extremity of the soiled piece to be removed, and thenbeing drawn through by its removal. This bandage willoften be found convenient in applying dressings to casesof excision of
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