. Minor surgery and bandaging, including the treatment of fractures and dislocations .. . Rolling a bandage by hand. the medical attendant may at any moment be called uponto roll a bandage, in order to apply a dressing, and as theart of preparing a bandage is acquired by a little practice,it should be familiar to every student and physician. Toroll a bandage by hand the strip should be folded at oneextremity several times until a small cylinder is formed ;this is then grasped by its extremities by the thumb andindex finger of the left hand; the free extremity of thestrip is then grasped betwee
. Minor surgery and bandaging, including the treatment of fractures and dislocations .. . Rolling a bandage by hand. the medical attendant may at any moment be called uponto roll a bandage, in order to apply a dressing, and as theart of preparing a bandage is acquired by a little practice,it should be familiar to every student and physician. Toroll a bandage by hand the strip should be folded at oneextremity several times until a small cylinder is formed ;this is then grasped by its extremities by the thumb andindex finger of the left hand; the free extremity of thestrip is then grasped between the thumb and index fingerof the right hand, and by alternate pronation and supina-tion of the right hand the cylinder is revolved and the 16 BANDAGING. roller is formed; the firmness of the roller will dependupon the amount of tension which is kept upon the freeextremity of the strip during the revolution of thecylinder. (Fig. 2.) Fig. 4.
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