Minor surgery, or, Hints on the every-day duties of the surgeon . become relaxed, but agrees with Velpeau andBoyer in thinking that the less often the bandageis disturbed the better. It may perhaps be useful to the young surgeonto say that the use of adhesive strips to suppurat-ing surfaces often produces a marked blackness ofthe skin. This is nothing but a chemical changeproduced in the plaster by the action of the dis-charges, and not the forerunner of gangrene asmany have at first supposed. Nothing answersso well for a compressive bandage of the testiclein cases of Epididymitis, orchronic e
Minor surgery, or, Hints on the every-day duties of the surgeon . become relaxed, but agrees with Velpeau andBoyer in thinking that the less often the bandageis disturbed the better. It may perhaps be useful to the young surgeonto say that the use of adhesive strips to suppurat-ing surfaces often produces a marked blackness ofthe skin. This is nothing but a chemical changeproduced in the plaster by the action of the dis-charges, and not the forerunner of gangrene asmany have at first supposed. Nothing answersso well for a compressive bandage of the testiclein cases of Epididymitis, orchronic enlargement of thetesticle, as strips of adhesiveplaster. In order to apply themin this case, the swelled testicleshould be forced to the bottomof the scrotum, by surroundingthe cord with the thumb andfingers of one hand so as toform a ring, while with theother, or with the hand of anassistant, the strips are so ap-plied as to surround the partentirely as seen in Fig. strips should be of thewidth of the thumb, and ap-plied over one another from Ftp. 32 MINOR SURGERY. below upwards, till the testis and a part of thecord are compressed between them. Previous totheir application the parts should be cleansed andwell shaved ; and the strips should he renewed asoften as they become slack from the abatement ofthe swelling in the testicle. The Seton is a narrow strip of soft linen rag, ofone, or one and a half inches in width, with a fewof its longitudinal threads drawn out from eachside, so as to leave a rough or jagged border, andintended to keep up irritation and suppuration in a part, and thus act as aFig. 24. revulsive from other parts. A skein of silk,a piece of silk braid,or, what is still better,on account of its clean-liness, a strip of gum-elastic, may be substi-tuted. The introduc-tion and dressing ofthe seton will be treated of hereafter. Poultices or Cataplasms are different kinds ofpulp or pastes intended to cover injured surfaces,and are made of various subs
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