. Minor surgery and bandaging; including the treatment of fractures and dislocations, the ligation of arteries, amputations, excisions and resections, intestinal anastomosis, operations upon nerves and tendons, tracheotomy, intubation of the larynx, before stated, it may be ap-plied to cover either the right orleft side of the face, and, by rea-son of the oblique turns, holdsits position most securely, havinglittle tendency to become displaced. Recurrent Bandage of the Head. Roller Two Inchesin Width, Six Yards in Length.—The initial extremity ofthe roller is placed upon the low
. Minor surgery and bandaging; including the treatment of fractures and dislocations, the ligation of arteries, amputations, excisions and resections, intestinal anastomosis, operations upon nerves and tendons, tracheotomy, intubation of the larynx, before stated, it may be ap-plied to cover either the right orleft side of the face, and, by rea-son of the oblique turns, holdsits position most securely, havinglittle tendency to become displaced. Recurrent Bandage of the Head. Roller Two Inchesin Width, Six Yards in Length.—The initial extremity ofthe roller is placed upon the lower part of the foreheadand the bandage is carried twice around the head from theforehead to the occiput to secure it, When the bandageis brought back to the median line of the forehead it isreversed, and the reversed turn is held by the finger of theleft hand while the roller is carried over the top of thehead along the sagittal suture to a point just^ below theoccipital protuberance ; here it is reversed again, and thereverse is held by an assistant while the roller is carriedback to the forehead in an elliptical course, each turn cov-ering in two-thirds of the preceding turn. These turnsare repeated with successive reverses at the forehead and. Oblique bandage of the angle ofthe jaw. BANDAGES OF THE HEAD. 47 occiput until one side of the head is completely coveredin, and when this is accomplished a circular turn is madefrom the forehead to the occiput to hold the reverses inplace. The opposite side of the head is next covered in by ellip-tical reversed turns made in the same manner, and whenthis has been accomplished two or three circular turns arecarried around the head from the forehead to the occiput,to fix the preceding turns. Pins should be applied at the Fig. 42.
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