A system of surgery : pathological, diagnostic, therapeutic, and operative . ms of not a few of them to distinction were based almost exclusively uponsuch absurd and puerile pursuits. If a man was so fortunate as to devise anapparatus for expelling peccant humors, for retaining a cataplasm upon the scalp,or for supporting a diseased breast, the height of his ambition was generallyamply gratified. It is to be feared that these employments have had too manyimitators in modern times. The more simple a bandage is the more likely will it be, if judiciously used,to answer the purpose for which it is
A system of surgery : pathological, diagnostic, therapeutic, and operative . ms of not a few of them to distinction were based almost exclusively uponsuch absurd and puerile pursuits. If a man was so fortunate as to devise anapparatus for expelling peccant humors, for retaining a cataplasm upon the scalp,or for supporting a diseased breast, the height of his ambition was generallyamply gratified. It is to be feared that these employments have had too manyimitators in modern times. The more simple a bandage is the more likely will it be, if judiciously used,to answer the purpose for which it is intended ; all complicated contrivances ofthis kind are objectionable on account of the difficulty of applying them, the easewith which they become deranged, and the trouble and vexation of changingthem, the attempts to do so being frequently attended with serious inconvenienceand pain to Ihe patient, and perhaps great detriment to the parts affected. Ingeneral, the single-headed roller is all that can be required in almost any case ; CHAP. XIII. BANDAGING. 469 Fi^. Baudage of Scultetus, occasionally the strip-bandage, commonly known as the bandage of Scultetus,represented in fig. 155, may advantageouslybe employed, especially in compound frac-tures and dislocations. The many-tailedbandage ought, on the contrary, to be dis-carded from practice, as inconvenient ajiduseless. It consists, as the name indicates,of a number of transverse slips, of thesame width but unequal length, stitched toa longitudinal portion, anfl was formerlymuch employed in cases of fracture of theleg. Bandages are composed of various ma-terials ; generally of muslin, bleached orunbleached, of calico or of linen, the onlyobjection to the latter being its they are made of flannel,especially when it is desirable to protectthe parts from cold, as in oedema of theextremities, and in the swelling attendantupon a gouty or rheumatic state of a joint,in persons of an unhealthy, broken con
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