New elements of operative surgery . eated by compression. Butto make exact pressure on the testicle, nothing is more commo-dious than adhesive plasters made with diachylon. Depressing theswollen part with one hand, as if to detach it from the ring, thesurgeon surrounds it with adhesive strips of the width of the thumb,so that all the parts of the tumor may be covered or enveloped asby a sac, the opening or apex of which should be arranged withcare around the root of the cord, (Fig. 109.) BANDAGES. 175 [A scrotum bandage, which I contrived while phy-sician to the Ssamens Retreat, (New York,) wh
New elements of operative surgery . eated by compression. Butto make exact pressure on the testicle, nothing is more commo-dious than adhesive plasters made with diachylon. Depressing theswollen part with one hand, as if to detach it from the ring, thesurgeon surrounds it with adhesive strips of the width of the thumb,so that all the parts of the tumor may be covered or enveloped asby a sac, the opening or apex of which should be arranged withcare around the root of the cord, (Fig. 109.) BANDAGES. 175 [A scrotum bandage, which I contrived while phy-sician to the Ssamens Retreat, (New York,) wherethe class of patients and diseases were such as torequire great attention to this part of surgery, andin which I found this apparatus of eminent servicein completely supporting this part in an isolatedmanner, giving great relief, and neither pressingon or wedging between the thighs, nor drawing backpainfully, as in the ordinary clumsy suspensory,was the following, (Figs. A and B,) which I wouldrecommend to general use: (Fig. A.).
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