The essentials of bandaging : including the management of fractures and dislocations, with directions for using other surgical apparatus / by Berkeley Hill.

  • Hill Berkeley, 1834-1892.
Date:
1867
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Credit: The essentials of bandaging : including the management of fractures and dislocations, with directions for using other surgical apparatus / by Berkeley Hill. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    9 opposite his patient, not at the side of the limb to be bandaged; the limb too should be bent to the position it will occupy when the bandage is completed. Before applying any kind of apparatus, the surgeon should see that the limb is carefully washed and dried. How to hold a Roller.—When applying a roller it is best to begin by placing the outer surface of the roller next the skin (see fig. 1, page 3), for it then unwinds more readily, and the first turns are more easily secured; moreover the bandage should be carried from the inner side of the limb by the front to the outer side, for the muscles are thus more firmly and pleasantly confined than by turns passing in the opposite direction; of course this observation supposes the hand and forearm to be in their usual position of semi-pronation. Varieties of Turns.—In carrying a bandage up a limb, it is necessary, in order to support the parts evenly, to employ a combination of three different turns. The simple spiral, reverse, and the figure of 8. The simple spiral turn is used only where the cir- cumference of the part increases slightly, as the wrist; but when the limb enlarges too fast to allow the fresh turn to overlap the previous one regularly, it must be interrupted, and the bandage brought back again by reverse, or by figure of 8. To reverse the bandage, the thumb of the un- occupied hand is placed on the lower border of the bandage while the roller is turned over in the other, and then passed downwards to overlap and fix the previous turn evenly. At the moment of reversing,