The operating room and the patient; a manual of pre- and post-operative treatment . Fig. 95.—Hernia bandage. (Fowlers Surgery.) resembles an armless jacket. The dimensions are: length, oneyard and one-fourth; width, at the back, sixteen inches, in front. Fig. 96.—Breast binder. eleven inches, under the arms nine inches. The body of thebandage surrounds the chest and is secured by i3inning in the BANDAGING 117 median line in front. The portions corresponding to the stripsof the T-bandage of the chest are fastened over each shoulderwith safety-pins (Fig. 97). The bandage is made to fit snuglyby
The operating room and the patient; a manual of pre- and post-operative treatment . Fig. 95.—Hernia bandage. (Fowlers Surgery.) resembles an armless jacket. The dimensions are: length, oneyard and one-fourth; width, at the back, sixteen inches, in front. Fig. 96.—Breast binder. eleven inches, under the arms nine inches. The body of thebandage surrounds the chest and is secured by i3inning in the BANDAGING 117 median line in front. The portions corresponding to the stripsof the T-bandage of the chest are fastened over each shoulderwith safety-pins (Fig. 97). The bandage is made to fit snuglyby taking pleats in the sides with safety-pins. This bandage ismost frequently used, after a radical operation for carcinoma ofthe breast, to retain dressings and to afford support to theopposite breast.
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