New elements of operative surgery . rejected at present. So also with the discrimen, the figured, {figure^and the knotted, {noue^ bandages. D. The packers knot, (noeud d^emballeur.) When bleeding by thetemporal artery was much practised formerly, they had recourse,in order to stop the hemorrhage, to a sort of compression, whichwas rendered exceedingly solid by forming, upon graduated com-presses, different crossings called the packers knot, (nceud d^em-halleur.) For that purpose, it w^as necessary to have a bandage offive yards in length, about an inch in width, and rolled up in twoheads. The
New elements of operative surgery . rejected at present. So also with the discrimen, the figured, {figure^and the knotted, {noue^ bandages. D. The packers knot, (noeud d^emballeur.) When bleeding by thetemporal artery was much practised formerly, they had recourse,in order to stop the hemorrhage, to a sort of compression, whichwas rendered exceedingly solid by forming, upon graduated com-presses, different crossings called the packers knot, (nceud d^em-halleur.) For that purpose, it w^as necessary to have a bandage offive yards in length, about an inch in width, and rolled up in twoheads. The middle of the bandage was placed on the sound tem-ple, in order to bring its two heads, the one in front, the other to theocciput, opposite the point of compression. Here they were crossedin order to change hands, making each perform a half turn, andbringing them back on the sound temple by conducting one to thevertex of the head, and the other under the chin. Crossing them then,as before, they were brought horizontally back to the
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