. Minor and operative surgery, including bandaging . Burtons bandage. Bartons bandage, showing crossing of turxusat vertex. turns are made, and when these have been completedanother occipito-frontal turn may be made as describedabove, and this may be repeated as often as is desireduntil the bandage is exhausted, when the extremity is fast-ened with a pin, and pins are introduced also at all pointsat which the turns cross. Use.—This bandage is one of the most useful of the 44 BANDAGING. bandages of the head, being employed to secure fixationof the jaw in cases of fracture or dislocation, and fo
. Minor and operative surgery, including bandaging . Burtons bandage. Bartons bandage, showing crossing of turxusat vertex. turns are made, and when these have been completedanother occipito-frontal turn may be made as describedabove, and this may be repeated as often as is desireduntil the bandage is exhausted, when the extremity is fast-ened with a pin, and pins are introduced also at all pointsat which the turns cross. Use.—This bandage is one of the most useful of the 44 BANDAGING. bandages of the head, being employed to secure fixationof the jaw in cases of fracture or dislocation, and for theapplication of dressings to the chin. I have also employedit in place of the head-gear in slinging patients for theapplication of the plaster-of-Paris jacket in cases of dis-ease of the spine, a stout cord or a piece of bandage aboutthree inches wide and one yard long being passed underthe turns crossing over the vertex; this cord is then se-cured to the cross-bar of the extension apparatus (Fig. 40).This will be found quite as comfortable t
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