. Minor surgery and bandaging, including the treatment of fractures and dislocations .. . d by the finger of the left handwhile the roller is carried over the top of the head alongthe sagittal suture to a point just below the occipital pro-tuberance ; here it is reversed again and the reverse isheld by an assistant while the roller is carried back to theforehead in an elliptical course, each turn covering in two-thirds of the preceding turn. These turns are repeatedwith successive reverses at the forehead and occiput untilone side of the head is completely covered in, and whenthis is accomplis
. Minor surgery and bandaging, including the treatment of fractures and dislocations .. . d by the finger of the left handwhile the roller is carried over the top of the head alongthe sagittal suture to a point just below the occipital pro-tuberance ; here it is reversed again and the reverse isheld by an assistant while the roller is carried back to theforehead in an elliptical course, each turn covering in two-thirds of the preceding turn. These turns are repeatedwith successive reverses at the forehead and occiput untilone side of the head is completely covered in, and whenthis is accomplished a circular turn is made from the fore-head to the occiput to hold the reverses in place. The opposite side of the head is next covered in byelliptical reversed turns made in the same manner, andwhen this has been accomplished two or three circular 40 REGIONAL BANDAGES. turns are carried around the head from the forehead to theocciput to fix the previous turns. Pins should be appliedat the forehead and occiput at the points where the re-versed turns concentrate. (Fig. 33.) Fig. Recurrent bandage of the head. Use.—This bandage when well applied is one of theneatest of the head bandages, and it will be found usefulto retain dressings to the vault of the cranium in the treat-ment of wounds of the scalp in this region. It will alsobe found of service in holding dressings to fractures of thecranium and to wounds after the operation of restless patients it will sometimes become displaced,and it may be rendered more secure by pinning a strip ofbandage to the circular turn in front of the ear and carrv-ing it down under the chin and up to a correspondingpoint on the opposite side, where it is pinned to the cir-cular turn; or one or two oblique turns passing from thecircidar turn over the vertex of the skull downward behindthe ear, under the chin and up to the circular turn in frontof the ear may be applied. The course of these turns isthe same as those employed
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