. Minor surgery and bandaging, including the treatment of fractures and dislocations .. . Four-tailed bandage of chin. Four-tailed bandage of head. The four-tailed bandage may be found useful as a tem-porary dressing in cases of fracture of the jaw, or to holddressings to the chin. It may be prepared by taking aportion of a roller bandage three inches wide and one yardin length, and splitting each extremity up to Avithin twoinches of the centre; it is then applied as seen in Fig. 19. The four-tailed bandage may also be used to retaindressings to the scalp, and can be prepared by taking apiece
. Minor surgery and bandaging, including the treatment of fractures and dislocations .. . Four-tailed bandage of chin. Four-tailed bandage of head. The four-tailed bandage may be found useful as a tem-porary dressing in cases of fracture of the jaw, or to holddressings to the chin. It may be prepared by taking aportion of a roller bandage three inches wide and one yardin length, and splitting each extremity up to Avithin twoinches of the centre; it is then applied as seen in Fig. 19. The four-tailed bandage may also be used to retaindressings to the scalp, and can be prepared by taking apiece of muslin one yard and a quarter long and six or HANDKERCHIEF BANDAGES. 29 eight inches in width, splitting it at each extremity intotwo tails within three inches of the centre; it may thenbe applied as seen in Fig. 20. The fonr-tailed bandage may also be nsed in the tem-porary dressing of fractures of the clavicle—the body ofthe bandage being placed upon the elbow of the injuredside, two tails passing around the body, fixing the arm tothe side, and two tails passing over the sound
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