. Minor and operative surgery, including bandaging . Single roller. Double roller. central portion of the strip, the double or double-headedroller is formed (Fig. 4). Double rollers are not much used, and in practice thesingle roller will be found to be amply sufficient for theapplication of almost all the bandages employed in sur-gical dressings. The free end of the roller-bandage is called the initialextremity ; the end which is enclosed in the centre of thecylinder is its terminal extremity ; and the portion betweenthe extremities the body ; a roller has also two surfaces,external and inter
. Minor and operative surgery, including bandaging . Single roller. Double roller. central portion of the strip, the double or double-headedroller is formed (Fig. 4). Double rollers are not much used, and in practice thesingle roller will be found to be amply sufficient for theapplication of almost all the bandages employed in sur-gical dressings. The free end of the roller-bandage is called the initialextremity ; the end which is enclosed in the centre of thecylinder is its terminal extremity ; and the portion betweenthe extremities the body ; a roller has also two surfaces,external and internal. Dimensions of Bandages.—Bandages vary in lengthand width according to the purposes for which they areemployed, and in practice it will be found that a smallvariety of bandages will be amply sufficient for the appli-cation of the ordinary surgical dressings. The following list, comprising those most frequentlyused, will show their dimensions : Bandages one inch wide, three yards in length, for band-ages for the hand, fingers, and toes. GENERA
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