Minor surgery, or, Hints on the every-day duties of the surgeon . TRANSVERSE WOUNDS. Composition. — A piece of muslin, or a rollerof the same width as the wound,Fig. 82. and as long as the member, is tobe divided to nearly half its lengthinto three tails or bandelettes ,•another and similar piece of clothshould be perforated in the mid-dle with three corresponding lon-gitudinal openings. The remain-der of the objects consist of twocommon graduated compresses,and two single-headed rollers, onesix and the other nine yards long,both three fingers breadth — The edges of the wound
Minor surgery, or, Hints on the every-day duties of the surgeon . TRANSVERSE WOUNDS. Composition. — A piece of muslin, or a rollerof the same width as the wound,Fig. 82. and as long as the member, is tobe divided to nearly half its lengthinto three tails or bandelettes ,•another and similar piece of clothshould be perforated in the mid-dle with three corresponding lon-gitudinal openings. The remain-der of the objects consist of twocommon graduated compresses,and two single-headed rollers, onesix and the other nine yards long,both three fingers breadth — The edges of the wound beingbrought together, the surgeon applies a spiral ban-dage to cover in the limb from its extremity up to the wound ;Fig. 84. * that done, he extends the per-forated bandalong the limb,so as to allowthe upper ex-tremity to passa few inchesbeyond thewound, and theslits to lie upon the edge of the wound ; he thenfixes this by means of spiral turns carried roundthe limb, from below up to the edge of the wound,and reflecting what remains of it downward, se-. MINOR SURGERY. 107 cures it by a few more turns. Confiding now thehead of the roller to an assistant, he takes thetailed roller, and fixes its extremity above thewound by a few spiral turns, and carries it spi-rally up and down to the lower part of the , having applied the compresses, c c, oneabove, and the other below the wound, he en-gages the tails in the corresponding perforations,and draws the free extremities of the bands incontrary directions, in order to approximate theedges of the wound; when he considers them to besufficiently in contact, he extends the bands alongthe limb, and while the assistants maintain themfirmly fixed, confines them with what remains ofthe two rollers. The cut shows this bandage applied to a trans-verse wound above the knee. Observations. — This bandage may be replacedby the annexed, which, in pointof fact,is a dry suture. Let twolong strips of adhesive plaster(spread on st
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