Plasters

(plas-ters). Used for keeping wounds together, binding sores, and applying medicaments to different parts of the body. The spreading of plasters is sometimes left to the nurse. Take a piece of glazed calico and strain it on a board with drawing-pins, spread your plaster hot with the edge of a warm knife. Common strapping consists of melting together two parts of soap plaster and one of resin plaster. To apply plaster, cut it into convenient strips, and hold the wrong side against a tin filled with hot water. In removing plasters, commence at the corners and work towards the centre: never pull away from the wound, or you may tear it open. The marks left by plasters can be removed by chloroform.