The operating room and the patient; a manual of pre- and post-operative treatment . Fig. 97.—The breast binder applied. (Fowlers burgery.) Four-tailed Bandage.—This is a modification of the is made by splitting in two and tearing longitudinally a strip ofbandage four inches broad by three feet long. Each end is splitlongitudinally up to a point within four inches of the middle of thestrip. The unsplit portion is the body of the bandage. Such abandage is useful in retaining certain fractures of the jaw inposition, and for dressings in the region of the chin (Fig. 98). 118 OPERATING
The operating room and the patient; a manual of pre- and post-operative treatment . Fig. 97.—The breast binder applied. (Fowlers burgery.) Four-tailed Bandage.—This is a modification of the is made by splitting in two and tearing longitudinally a strip ofbandage four inches broad by three feet long. Each end is splitlongitudinally up to a point within four inches of the middle of thestrip. The unsplit portion is the body of the bandage. Such abandage is useful in retaining certain fractures of the jaw inposition, and for dressings in the region of the chin (Fig. 98). 118 OPERATING ROOM AND THE PATIENT The body of the bandage is applied to the symphysis of thelower jaw. The upper two of the four tails are carried directlybackward to beneath the inion and are there drawn taut andknotted. The lower two of the four tails are carried directlyupward until the vertex of the skull is reached, where they aredrawn taut and knotted. The four ends are then tied tightlytogether and the superfluous part of the bandage is cut Fig. 98.—Four-tailed bandage of the jaw. Retractor Bandages.—^Modifications of the T-bandages areused for the purpose of retracting the soft parts in amputations,in order to prevent injury to the soft parts while section of thebone is made. They are two-tailed for amputations of thehumerus or femur, and three-tailed for amputations of theforearm or leg. They are made of several thicknesses of un-bleached muslin, each tail measuring twenty inches long byeight inches wide (Figs. 99 and 100). The scultetus (Fig. 101) is another form of many-tailed most frequently used is similar to an abdominal binder, thebinder being split into mam^ tails from each extremity to a pointwithin four inches of either side of the middle line of the a bandage is useful in retaining dressings upon an abdominal BANDAGING 119
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