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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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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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    from each end 3 inches short of the centre—one pair of tails being rather wider than the other. If used on the face, the middle is put against the point of the chin, the two narrow tails are carried back- wards to the nape, crossed, and pinned together on the forehead above the brows. The two broader tails are carried upwards in front of the ears, where they turn round the two narrow tails, to be either tied or pinned at the vertex. Four-tail band- ages are used elsewhere, as in the axilla, to keep poultices in place, &c. To retain Ice Bladders on the Head.—This is done by folding a thin napkin over the bladder, which is then laid against the head or part to be kept cool, and the ends of the napkin are pinned tightly down to the pillow at each side. In this way the bag cannot slip, and its weight is at the same time prevented from pressing on the head. To compress the Jugular Vein after bleeding. —■ After vensesection of the external jugular vein it is requisite to keep a compress of lint on the wound. This is done by fastening the bandage on the neck with two simple turns, then carrying a figure of 8 round the neck, over the compress and under the axilla of the opposite side, then round the neck again; if the figure Fig. 6.—Four-tail Bandage.