Bandage

(ban'-daj). Bandages are usually strips of muslin or other material, of varying widths and lengths, used in surgery for the purpose of protecting, compre ing, etc., a part, or for the retention of dre ings and applications. A simple bandage or roller consists of one piece; a compound, of two or more pieces. Starch, plaster of- Paris, silica, dextrin, tripolith, etc., etc., are used or recommended for making stiff and immovable dre ings or bandages. According to their direction bandages are cla ed as: I. Circular, circular turns about the part. 2. the turns cro ing each other like that figure. 3. Oblique, covering the part by oblique turns. 4. Recurrent, the turns returning succe ively to the point of origin. 5. Spica, the turns resembling the arrangement of the husks of an ear of corn. 6. Spiral, each turn covering one-half of the preceding. 7. Spiral reverse, the bandage is reversed in order to better adapt it to the part. Bandages are also cla ed according to the part to which they are applied. Of Bandages of the head we have: I. Circular, of the forehead, to retain dre ings upon the head. 2. Circular, of the eyes. 3. Cro ed, of the eyes, to hold dre ings upon one or both eyes. 4. T., of the eye, a small piece of muslin cut in the shape of a right-angled triangle, and sufficiently large to cover the eye, is sewn by its base, with the perpendicular toward the ear, to a horizontal strip of a length to encircle the head. The apex of the triangle is sewn to a vertical strip long enough to pa under the jaw and meet the horizontal strip on the opposite side. 5. Cro ed, of the angle of the jaw, to support the parts in fracture of the angle of the jaw. 6. Knotted, of the head, a double-headed roller with compre , to make coinpiv ion in wound of the temporal artery. 7. Recurrent, of the head, a single-headed or double-headed roller, to BANDAGES. Barton's Bandage. Cro ed Bandage of both Eyes. T-Bandage of the Eye. Posterior Bandage of the Chest. The Six-tailed Bandage of Galen. Suspensory and Compre or Bandage of the Breast. Recurrent Bandage of the Head. Transverse Recurrent of the Head. Four-tailed Bandage of the Head. Spica Bandage of Shoulder. Agnew's Bandage. Four-tailed Bandage of the Head. Gibson's Bandage. Anterior Chest.Bandage of the Spiral of the Chest. Eight-tailed Bandage of the Abdomen Velpeau's Bandage. Double Spica Bandage of the Groins. Demi-Gauntlet Bandage.