. Minor surgery and bandaging, including the treatment of fractures and dislocations .. . Figure-of-eight bandage of the leg. that when the swell of the calf is reached, figure-of-eightturns are made around the leg instead of spiral reversedturns. In applying the roller, when the calf of the leg is 84 SPECIAL BANDAGES. reached, the bandage is carried obliquely around the legand brought in front of the leg and made to cross thestarting-turn in the median line; these turns are repeateduntil the calf of the leg has been covered in, and the ban-dage is finished with one or two circular turns just
. Minor surgery and bandaging, including the treatment of fractures and dislocations .. . Figure-of-eight bandage of the leg. that when the swell of the calf is reached, figure-of-eightturns are made around the leg instead of spiral reversedturns. In applying the roller, when the calf of the leg is 84 SPECIAL BANDAGES. reached, the bandage is carried obliquely around the legand brought in front of the leg and made to cross thestarting-turn in the median line; these turns are repeateduntil the calf of the leg has been covered in, and the ban-dage is finished with one or two circular turns just belowthe knee. (Fig. 72.) Use.—This bandage holds its place more firmly thanthe ordinary spiral reversed bandage of the leg, and maybe employed in the treatment of ulcers of the leg in con-junction with strapping, where it is desirable to changethe dressings at infrequent intervals and to allow thepatient to walk about during the course of treatment. SPECIAL Reversed Bandage of the Penis. Roller Three-quarters of an Inch in Width, Thirty Inches in Length. Fig. Spiral reversed bandage of the penis. RECURRENT BANDAGE OF STUMP. 85 Application.—Fix the initial extremity of the rollerby two circular turns around the penis close to the pubis;then carry the bandage obliquely down to the coronaglandis; from this point ascend the body of the penis byspiral reversed turns to the pubis and finish the bandageby two figure-of-eight turns around the neck of the scrotumand root of the penis; split the end of the bandage so asto form two tails and secure it by tying these around theroot of the penis. (Fig, 73.) Recurrent Bandage of Stump. Roller Two and a Half Inches in Width, Five to SevenYards in Length. Application.—Place the initial extremity of the rollerupon the anterior or posterior surface of the limb a fewinches above the extremity of the stump, and carry the Fig. 74.
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