Minor surgery, or, Hints on the every-day duties of the surgeon . mini; it counteracts in this way the antagonistingmuscles, and restores the head to its natural posi-tion. UNITING BANDAGE FOR TRANSVERSE WOUNDS OF THENECK. Composition.— A single-headed roller, four MINOR SURGERY. Ill yards long ; — a band afoot long and three fin-gers breadth wide ; — a body bandage with thigh-straps ; — and a compress a yard and a half longby eight inches wide, folded lengthwise in four. Fig. Application. — A night-cap, a, is fixed uponthe patients head by a few horizontal turns, b b,of the roller, which
Minor surgery, or, Hints on the every-day duties of the surgeon . mini; it counteracts in this way the antagonistingmuscles, and restores the head to its natural posi-tion. UNITING BANDAGE FOR TRANSVERSE WOUNDS OF THENECK. Composition.— A single-headed roller, four MINOR SURGERY. Ill yards long ; — a band afoot long and three fin-gers breadth wide ; — a body bandage with thigh-straps ; — and a compress a yard and a half longby eight inches wide, folded lengthwise in four. Fig. Application. — A night-cap, a, is fixed uponthe patients head by a few horizontal turns, b b,of the roller, which are made to fix at the sametime the extremities of the band, c, placed by itscentre upon the inferior part of the chin. Thebody bandage, d, is applied round the chest andpinned. The centre, e, of the compress being 112 MINOR SURGERY. lastly applied upon the upper and back part of thehead, and secured by a few more horizontal turnsof the roller, its pendent extremities are firmlyfastened to the forepart of the body bandage,// SLINGS. These are light bandages of great simplicity,and very useful in retaining simple dressings, asthey do not heat the part. They are formed of apiece of muslin of various lengths and width,split at each extremity into two or three tails upto within a few fingers breadth of their centre, asseen in the figure. They are also occasionally formed of aFig. 89. piece of muslin of a size suffi-cient to coverthe part, to eachend of whichare attachedtwo b
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