Minor surgery, or, Hints on the every-day duties of the surgeon . SLING, OR FOUR-TAILED BANDAGE OF THE HEAD. Composed of a strip of muslin, a yard long andsix inches broad, split at each end to within threefingers breadth of the centre. Application. — When the wound is on the fore-head, the body of the sling is applied there, andthe two upper tails, carried posteriorly, are fixedat the back of the head ; the lower tails are thenfastened either upon the vertex or beneath the10* 114 MINOR SURGERY. chin, as the surgeon may consider it more conve-nient. To confine aFig. 91. dressing upon the sum-
Minor surgery, or, Hints on the every-day duties of the surgeon . SLING, OR FOUR-TAILED BANDAGE OF THE HEAD. Composed of a strip of muslin, a yard long andsix inches broad, split at each end to within threefingers breadth of the centre. Application. — When the wound is on the fore-head, the body of the sling is applied there, andthe two upper tails, carried posteriorly, are fixedat the back of the head ; the lower tails are thenfastened either upon the vertex or beneath the10* 114 MINOR SURGERY. chin, as the surgeon may consider it more conve-nient. To confine aFig. 91. dressing upon the sum- mit of the head, the pos-terior tails, a, are broughtdown and secured be-neath the chin ; the an-terior tails, b b, after be-ing carried to the nape ofthe neck and crossed,are fixed before thethroat, or brought againon the forehead (Fig. 91).In applying it to the napeof the neck, the uppertails are conducted overthe forehead, from whence, after being made to cross each other, they are returned,. Fig, 92. and fastened at theocciput; the lowertails pass round theneck. This latter formsthe sling of the neck,as in Fig. 92. Uses. — This ban-dage is a very simpleand convenient one,and is of great utilityin wounds of the heador neck, as it can beapplied over everypoint of this part, bymerelv changing its direction. On the neck it
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