The operating room and the patient; a manual of pre- and post-operative treatment . Fig. 27.—Rolling bandage by hand. (Fowlers Surgery.) edges, is to draw a thread the desired length of the bandage, thusallowing of the clean cutting of the material along the line soindicated. The strips are rolled into a cylinder either by handor by means of a bandage machine. If they are rolled by hand,one end of the strip is first folded on itself a number of timesuntil a smooth cylinder is formed. This cylinder is grasped by. Fig. 28.—Hand roller-bandage machine. (Fowlers Surgery.) the right hand, the foref
The operating room and the patient; a manual of pre- and post-operative treatment . Fig. 27.—Rolling bandage by hand. (Fowlers Surgery.) edges, is to draw a thread the desired length of the bandage, thusallowing of the clean cutting of the material along the line soindicated. The strips are rolled into a cylinder either by handor by means of a bandage machine. If they are rolled by hand,one end of the strip is first folded on itself a number of timesuntil a smooth cylinder is formed. This cylinder is grasped by. Fig. 28.—Hand roller-bandage machine. (Fowlers Surgery.) the right hand, the forefinger pressing u23on one end, the thumbon the other, and while so held it is revolved by the fingers of theother hand in such a manner as to roll around it the rest of thestrip which is guided by the left hand (Fig. 27), or, the bandage BANDAGING 65 having been started In the above manner, the process may becontinued by rolling it on a hard surface with the palm of thehand, or by placing the bandage on the anterior surface of thethigh and rolling it toward the knee with the palm of the either case tension should be made on the strip at the sametime and care taken that with each revolution the strip accuratelyoverlies the preceding one. Bandages may be rolled by amachine worked by hand (Fig. 28) or by foot (Fig. 29). Oneend of the bandage is fastened under tension to the revolving
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