New elements of operative surgery . d participating in it. The fingers have a kind of bandage adaptedonly to them, and bearing the name of gauntlet, presenting twovarieties: the gauntlet, properly so called, and the demi-gauntlet. A. The Gauntlet, (gantelet,) (Fig. 114.) The object of the gauntlet is to surroundeach finger with a kind of roller is always useful when we wish to makea certain degree of pressure, preventive orcurative, on each of the fingers mode of doing this, which I have foundvery convenient, is as follows : take a ban-dage of about an inch or one finge
New elements of operative surgery . d participating in it. The fingers have a kind of bandage adaptedonly to them, and bearing the name of gauntlet, presenting twovarieties: the gauntlet, properly so called, and the demi-gauntlet. A. The Gauntlet, (gantelet,) (Fig. 114.) The object of the gauntlet is to surroundeach finger with a kind of roller is always useful when we wish to makea certain degree of pressure, preventive orcurative, on each of the fingers mode of doing this, which I have foundvery convenient, is as follows : take a ban-dage of about an inch or one fingers width,and eight or ten yards long ; fix it securelyby two circulars on the wrist; then bring itdiagonally on the back of the hand to theroot of the little finger; then wind itaround this finger to its free extremity;then make turns which lap over each othertwo-thirds, in proceeding from the nail tothe metacarpus; return to make a circu-lar about the wrist, then by the dorsum ofthe metacarpus, to do on the ring finger (Fig. 114.). BANDAGES. 181 what has been done on the little finger;proceed a second time to the wrist; bringthe bandage to the middle finger, which isto be surrounded like the preceding; re-turn a second time to the wrist, to surroundalso the forefinger. There is ihen nothingmore to do but to pass some transversecirculars upon the metacarpus, and tofinish by fixing the bandage upon thewrist. B. The half-gauntlet (Fig. 115) differsfrom the preceding, in being limited to oneturn of the bandage upon the root of eachfinger, and fastened by the like numberof circulars upon the wrist. It is a sortof multiple of the spica, sometimes dorsal,at other times palmar, but scarcely everused at present. (Fig. 115.)
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