The operating room and the patient; a manual of pre- and post-operative treatment . es may be classified as follows: 1. The simple or roller bandage, which may be a single ordoable roller. A double roller is made by sewing together theinitial extremities of two roller bandages (Fig. 47). It is muchless used than formerly. 2. Compound bandages, or many-tailed bandages and slings. 3. Immobilizing bandages, such as those made of crinolineor other large-meshed material in which plaster of Paris or starchor some other hardening agent has been incorporated. Theseare most frequently of the roller-ban
The operating room and the patient; a manual of pre- and post-operative treatment . es may be classified as follows: 1. The simple or roller bandage, which may be a single ordoable roller. A double roller is made by sewing together theinitial extremities of two roller bandages (Fig. 47). It is muchless used than formerly. 2. Compound bandages, or many-tailed bandages and slings. 3. Immobilizing bandages, such as those made of crinolineor other large-meshed material in which plaster of Paris or starchor some other hardening agent has been incorporated. Theseare most frequently of the roller-bandage type. 4. Pressure bandages, usually made of rubber, such as Martinsrubber bandage. Manufacture.—Of whatever material the bandage is com-posed, the most frequently used is the roller bandage. These 64 OPERATING ROOM AXD THE PATIENT are made by cutting the selected material into strips that varyin width and length, according to the locality to be gauze is the material of which the bandage is to be made, asimple way of cutting the bandage straight, without frayed. Fig. 27.—Rolling bandage by hand. (Fowlers Surgery.) edges, is to draw a thread the desired length of the bandage, thusallowing of the clean cutting of the material along the line soindicated. The strips are rolled into a cylinder either by handor by means of a bandage machine. If they are rolled by hand,one end of the strip is first folded on itself a number of timesuntil a smooth cylinder is formed. This cylinder is grasped by
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