Minor surgery, or, Hints on the every-day duties of the surgeon . round the chest andpinned. The centre, e, of the compress being 112 MINOR SURGERY. lastly applied upon the upper and back part of thehead, and secured by a few more horizontal turnsof the roller, its pendent extremities are firmlyfastened to the forepart of the body bandage,// SLINGS. These are light bandages of great simplicity,and very useful in retaining simple dressings, asthey do not heat the part. They are formed of apiece of muslin of various lengths and width,split at each extremity into two or three tails upto within a
Minor surgery, or, Hints on the every-day duties of the surgeon . round the chest andpinned. The centre, e, of the compress being 112 MINOR SURGERY. lastly applied upon the upper and back part of thehead, and secured by a few more horizontal turnsof the roller, its pendent extremities are firmlyfastened to the forepart of the body bandage,// SLINGS. These are light bandages of great simplicity,and very useful in retaining simple dressings, asthey do not heat the part. They are formed of apiece of muslin of various lengths and width,split at each extremity into two or three tails upto within a few fingers breadth of their centre, asseen in the figure. They are also occasionally formed of aFig. 89. piece of muslin of a size suffi-cient to coverthe part, to eachend of whichare attachedtwo bands toserve as tails, thus making it resemble the slingsemployed in war by the ancients for hurling stones,whence their name. In using the sling, the bodyor central part is first applied over the part, andthe tails are carried round it and confined by knotsor SLING OF SIX TAILS, OR THE BANDAGE OF GALEN. Composed of a piece of linen, a yard long and aquarter of a yard wide, split at each end, to withinthree fingers breadth of the centre, into three por- MINOR SURGERY. 113 Fig. 90. tions, the central being somewhat broader than theothers. Application. — The surgeon placing the ban-dage upon the summit of the head, takes first thecentral tails, a a a, between the thumb and fin-gers of each hand, and pass-ing them along the ears,secures them underneath thechin, 6, observing, however,to fold the edges of eachtail inwards so as to give ita triangular form, the basecorresponding to the unsplitportion; the frontal tails arethen to be directed from theanterior to the posteriorpart of the head, where theyshould overlap each other,while the occipital tails arebrought forward and se-cured on the forehead bypins. Use. — To retain large dressings to the head.
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