. A domestic cyclopædia of practical information ... r web, orof a substance like stockings; but for mostpurposes, stout unbleached ^.alico, or thin finecalico, will answer. They are generally rolledup longitudinally for use, and hence have re-ceived the name of rollers. Bandages may oftenbe made of handkerchiefs, or square pieces oflinen. II. The chief uses of bandages are, ist,to keep on dressings, to protect a diseased partfrom injury, and put some little restraint uponits motions; 2dly, to afford a support to relax-ed muscles, ligaments, and vessels. Depriveany part of its normal support,
. A domestic cyclopædia of practical information ... r web, orof a substance like stockings; but for mostpurposes, stout unbleached ^.alico, or thin finecalico, will answer. They are generally rolledup longitudinally for use, and hence have re-ceived the name of rollers. Bandages may oftenbe made of handkerchiefs, or square pieces oflinen. II. The chief uses of bandages are, ist,to keep on dressings, to protect a diseased partfrom injury, and put some little restraint uponits motions; 2dly, to afford a support to relax-ed muscles, ligaments, and vessels. Depriveany part of its normal support, and varicoseveins and dropsical effusions are sure to oc-cur ; and conversely many chronic swellings of BANDAGES 15 the limbs and joints may often be cured by the proper applications of bandages alone. III. The Roller.—In applying this to any limb, it should be held as represented in Fig. 2, and should be passed from onehand to the other as the limb is encircledwith it. Begining at the extremity of thelimb, it should be applied most tightly there. Fig. 3- and a very little more loosely as it little of it should be unfolded at atime and each fold should overlap about athird of the previous one. When the limb
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