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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    4. Strapping, needle, and thread. 5. Pad and wool. The splint for an adult should be 2\ inches wide, and long enough to reach from the nipple to 4 or 5 inches beyond the heel; two round holes I inch diameter are cut at its upper end, and at the lower one two notches 2 inches deep. Liston’s mode of applying it.—Step 1. The end of a roller is split for a few inches, and tied in the holes at the upper end. The roller itself is carried down the inside of the splint and attached temporarily to the notches at the other end ; a pad is then fastened on, by drawing the margins together with needle and thread across the outside of the splint, or, by tying strips of bandage round the pad and splint at short distances. Step 2. The limb having been washed with soap and water, especially at the pcrineeum, and well dried, the ankle and dorsum of the foot are wrapped in a layer of cotton wool, and the splint applied along the outside of the body. The bandage which was fastened to the splint is now released from the notch; and, taking with it the end of the pad, is carried under the sole, then over the ankle joint to the splint, and behind the ankle round the internal malleolus to the dorsum of the foot, then through the lower notch of the splint to the inside of the foot again. This figure of 8 is carried four times over the dorsum of the foot, twice through each notch of the splint, and is made fast by a pin or a stitch. In doing this, care must be taken to keep the leg and splint parallel, and that the splint does not ride over the back of the foot; the external malleolus