New elements of operative surgery . rossedin front of the wound, whose two lips are drawn together. Theyare afterwards conducted backward, where the small head mustbe made to terminate, and in such manner that there are stillsome turns to spare of the larger one. It is often, also, useful toplace under this bandage a graduated compress, of greater or lessthickness, on each side, and at some distance from the wound. Wethus force the deeper tissues to come into contact as well as thesuperficial layers. A more regular bandage than the preceding, is that which ismade with a long bandage, the extre
New elements of operative surgery . rossedin front of the wound, whose two lips are drawn together. Theyare afterwards conducted backward, where the small head mustbe made to terminate, and in such manner that there are stillsome turns to spare of the larger one. It is often, also, useful toplace under this bandage a graduated compress, of greater or lessthickness, on each side, and at some distance from the wound. Wethus force the deeper tissues to come into contact as well as thesuperficial layers. A more regular bandage than the preceding, is that which ismade with a long bandage, the extremity of which is convertedinto two strips, (Fig. 91,) and which present, at a variable distancefrom each other, two kinds of long openings. We make a smallhead with the divided extremity of the bandage, and a large onewith the other portion. The measurements ought to be so made, BANDAGES. 151 that while the middle of the bandage is supported on the point op-posite to the wound, the openings and the root of the strips may (Fig. 91.). be found united together on reaching near the wound. Passingthrough each other, and properly crossed, the two portions of thebandage are then drawn upon, unrolled, and fastened, as in thepreceding case. With this arrangement, the strips fill up exactly the holes pre-pared beforehand, and the whole makes in reality but one piece,which draws in an equal manner, and in an opposite direction, uponthe parts that we wish to keep in contact. It is to this, then, thatwe must have recourse when ^ve wish to undertake the immediateunion of a wound of some length, in those cases where adhesiveplasters do not seem applicable or sufficient. When the wound is narrow, or where it is of no consequence toeffect a perfectly exact coaptation of its lips, we may make use ofa more simple uniting bandage ; that is, of one somewhat narrower,and rolled like the other into two heads, and whose two portionsare obliquely crossed without being slit, or without crossing uponthe
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