Minor surgery, or, Hints on the every-day duties of the surgeon . gra-dually ascend, drawing each strip moderatelytight When it is necessary to change one or moreof the strips, undo the bandage, and attaching the MINOR SURGERY. 237 fresh hand to the soiled one, draw the latter out,and thus place the fresh one in its place withoutderanging the limb. THE EIGHTEEN-TAILED BANDAGE, Is Composed of a strip, three inches wide andas long as the limb, to which are stitched cross-wise, eighteen or more strips of an equal width,and sufficiently long to make a turn and a halfabout the limb, and cover in ea
Minor surgery, or, Hints on the every-day duties of the surgeon . gra-dually ascend, drawing each strip moderatelytight When it is necessary to change one or moreof the strips, undo the bandage, and attaching the MINOR SURGERY. 237 fresh hand to the soiled one, draw the latter out,and thus place the fresh one in its place withoutderanging the limb. THE EIGHTEEN-TAILED BANDAGE, Is Composed of a strip, three inches wide andas long as the limb, to which are stitched cross-wise, eighteen or more strips of an equal width,and sufficiently long to make a turn and a halfabout the limb, and cover in each other by abouttwo-thirds, each having a slight degree of obliquityrelative to the longitudinal piece. It was formerlyapplied like the bandage of Scultetus, but hasbeen supplanted by it, as its strips could not bechanged, owing to their peculiar construction. The Splints for fractured femur differ in theirform. Those of Dessault consist of one for theoutside of the limb, long enough to reach from thespine of the ilium to four inches beyond the foot, Fig. and of another extending from the perineum tothe sole of the foot, both of them of the width ofthe limb. In the upper part of the outside oneare holes to receive the counter-extending band,and at its lower end one for the extending band. Tothese were added a third splint,junct bags, Scultetsbandage, &c, as shown in the cut. (Fig. 165.) 238 MINOR SURGERV. DR. PHYSICKS SPLINTS, Are like these, except in the addition to thelength of the outer one, by which the end wentnearer the axilla, thus making the counter-ex-tension more in the line of the body, andpreventing any inclination to that side, whilstthe addition of a block by Dr. Hutchinson,made the direction of the extending band alsomore in the line of the limb. To these were addedsome means of extension, counter-extension,Scultets bandage, &c, as before spoken of. Withslight modifications, this is the apparatus nowemployed in the Pennsylvania Hospital, and, asthe experi
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