The essentials of bandaging /

by Berkeley Hill

1. Tourniquet.	10. Lion’s-tooth, or sequestrum forceps.
2. Straight bistoury.	11. Strapping.
3. Tenaculum.	12. Lint and wool.
4. Torsion forceps.	13. Bandages.
5. Acupressure needles.	14. Narrow saw.
6. Needle nippers.	15. Bone forceps.
7. Artery forceps.	16. Mackintosh sheet.
8. Ligatures.	17. Chloroform and inhaler.
9. Sutures.

INDEX.

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• A.
• Abdominal support, [165].
• —— tourniquet, [149].
• Acromion, fracture of, [56].
• Administering chloroform, [179].
• Air-bath, the hot, [154].
• Amputations, [213].
• —— ankle, [215].
• —— arm, [213].
• —— forearm, [214].
• —— hip, [214].
• —— leg, [215].
• —— metacarpal bones, [214].
• —— metatarsal bones, [215].
• —— penis, [208].
• —— phalanges, [214].
• —— shoulder, [213].
• —— thigh, [215].
• Angular splint, [48].
• —— union, [76].
• Ankle, strapping the, [27].
• Apparatus for dislocation at the hip, [104].
• Arch, palmar, wound of, [17].
• Arm, bandage for, [16].
• Arrest of hæmorrhage, [197].
• Artificial respiration, [183].
• Ascites, bandage for, [10].
• B.
• Bandages, [1].
• —— arm, [16].
• —— belly, [10].
• —— bleeding jugular vein, [7].
• —— breast, [8].
• —— elbow, [16].
• —— fingers, [14].
• —— foot, [21].
• —— groin, [9].
• —— hand, [15].
• —— head, [3].
• —— heel, [21].
• —— hernia, [10].
• —— knee, [22].
• —— leg, [21].
• —— many-tail, [23].
• —— plaster of paris, [85].
• —— scultetus, [23].
• —— shoulder, [16], [55].
• —— spica, [9], [10], [14], [16], [55].
• —— starch, [80].
• —— stump, [22].
• —— thumb, [14].
• —— toe, [21].
• Band-box cradle, [81].
• Bath, the hot air, [154].
• —— the vapour, [155].
• Bed, the floating, [141].
• —— the sick, [196].
• Bedsores, [140].
• —— ring of felt for, [140].
• —— Brown Sequard’s treatment, [140].
• Belloc’s sound, [121].
• Belly, bandage for, [10].
• —— tapping the, [204].
• Bicuspid tooth, drawing a, [124].
• Bladder, ice, [7].
• —— washing out the, [137].
• Blanket pad for axilla, [53].
• Bleeding, cupping, [158].
• —— at elbow, [18].
• —— jugular vein, [7].
• —— leech bites, [160].
• —— palmar arch, [17].
• —— socket of tooth, [126].
• —— staff, [19].
• —— tape, [19].
• Blisters, [170].
• Block for McIntyre’s splint, [65].
• Blood, transfusion of, [144].
• Both bones of forearm, fracture of, [43].
• Bougies, [130].
• —— filiformes, [134].
• —— olive-headed, [130].
• Bread poultice, [171].
• Breast, bandaging the, [8].
• —— removing the, [203].
• —— strapping the, [25].
• Broken rib, [36].
• —— finger, [39].
• Bruce’s cautery, [166].
• Bulbous ended catheter, [130], [135].
• C.
• Cæsarian section, [205].
• Calcaneum, separation of the epiphysis of, [60].
• Calomel fumigation, [153].
• Cambric rollers, [1].
• Canine tooth, drawing a, [123].
• Cantharides, [170].
• Cap for shoulder, [54].
• Capelline bandage, [5].
• Carbolic acid dressing, [172].
• Carriage, the sick, [155].
• Carte’s tourniquet, [149].
• Cash’s bandages, [1].
• Casting in plaster of paris, [114].
• Cataract, [199].
• Catheters, [129].
• —— flexible, [129].
• —— passing, [132].
• —— —— in the female, [136].
• —— silver, [129].
• —— tying in, [138].
• —— vulcanised india-rubber, [130], [136].
• Caustics, [168].
• Cauteries, [166].
• Cautery irons, [166].
• —— Clover’s, [168].
• —— galvanic, [168].
• —— gas, [166].
• Cervix uteri, extirpation of, [207].
• Chalk and gum, [89].
• Chassaignac’s drainage tubes, [161].
• Chloride of zinc, [169].
• Chloroform, [179].
• —— in dislocations, [95].
• —— to the uterus, [187].
• —— dangers of, [180].
• Chromic acid, [169].
• Circumcision, [208].
• Clavicle, dislocation of, [96].
• —— fracture of the, [56].
• Cleft palate, [201].
• —— perinæum, [207].
• Clove hitch, the, [99].
• Clover’s cautery, [168].
• —— inhaler, [181].
• Club foot, [113].
• Cold injection, [118].
• Collar bone, fracture of, [56].
• —— ring pad for, [59].
• —— figure of 8 for, [59].
• —— dislocation of, [96].
• Colles’ fracture, [39].
• Collodion, [189].
• Colotomy, [205].
• Common rollers with plaster of paris, [88].
• Compound fracture, openings in splints for, [87].
• Compress, graduated, [17].
• —— for bleeding jugular vein, [7].
• Conformation of urethra, [132].
• Continuous extension, [78], [80].
• Corrigan’s hammer, [169].
• Counter extension, [95].
• Coxeter’s elastic perineal band, [75].
• Cradles, [90].
• —— Salter’s, [64].
• —— of band box, [90].
• Cupping, bleeding, [158].
• —— dry, [156].
• Cushions, water, [142].
• D.
• Delirious patients, manacles for, [12].
• Diathesis, the hæmorrhagic, [126].
• Difficulties in passing catheters, [133].
• Disjunction of articular surfaces, [47].
• Dislocations, [95].
• —— clavicle, [96].
• —— elbow, [101].
• —— —— distinction from fracture, [47].
• —— fingers, [103].
• —— foot, [110].
• —— hip, [104].
• —— —— reduction by manipulation, [107].
• —— knee, [109].
• —— lower jaw, [95].
• —— patella, [110].
• —— shoulder, [97].
• —— thumb, [103].
• Domett’s flannel roller, [112].
• Double inclines, [77].
• —— slung, [78].
• Drainage tubes, [161].
• Drawing teeth, [122].
• Drops for eye, [117].
• Dry cupping, [156].
• —— heat, [172].
• Drying starch bandages, [84].
• Dupuytren’s splint, [61].
• E.
• Ears, syringing the, [117].
• Eight, figure of, [3].
• Eighteen-tail bandage, [23].
• Elastic extension, [75].
• —— perineal band, [75].
• —— socks, [24].
• —— stirrup, [75].
• Elbow, bandaging the, [16].
• —— dislocation at, [101].
• —— fracture near, [47].
• —— resecting the, [212].
• Elevator, [125].
• Emplastrum lyttæ, [170].
• Epiphysis of Os Calcis, separation of the, [60].
• Epispastique, pâte, [170].
• Epistaxis, [118].
• Equinus, talipes, [113].
• Esmarch’s irrigator, [179].
• Essentials of a truss, [162].
• Ether spray, [186].
• Extension in fractures, [75], [76], [78].
• —— in hip disease, [80].
• —— simple, in dislocations, [99].
• —— in the long splint, [75].
• —— by weight and pully, [79].
• External splint for broken jaw, [32].
• Eye douche, [116].
• —— drops, [117].
• —— operations on the, [198].
• F.
• Feeding by the stomach pump, [144].
• Female, passing a catheter in the, [136].
• Femur, fracture of, [72].
• —— resecting the, [212].
• Fibula, fracture of, [60].
• Figure of 8 turn, [3].
• —— bandage, [59].
• Fingers, bandaging, [14].
• —— dislocation of, [103].
• —— splint for, [39].
• Fistula in ano, [207].
• Flannel rollers, [1].
• —— —— for plaster of paris, [86].
• Flexible catheters, [130].
• Floating bed, [141].
• Fomentations, [172].
• Foot, bandaging the, [21].
• —— dislocation of the, [110].
• Forceps, tooth, [122].
• —— —— bicuspid, [123], [124].
• —— —— incisor, [123].
• —— —— molar, [124].
• Forearm, bandaging the, [15].
• —— dislocation of, [101].
• —— fracture of, [43].
• Four-tail bandage, [6].
• Fractures, [30].
• —— acromion, [56].
• —— at ankle, [61].
• —— clavicle, [56].
• —— Colles’, [39].
• —— elbow, [47].
• —— femur, shaft of, [72].
• —— fibula, [60].
• —— forearm, [43].
• —— humerus, neck of, [53].
• —— —— shaft of, [51].
• —— —— lower end of, [47].
• —— —— great tuberosity of, [56].
• —— jaw, [30].
• —— metacarpal bones, [37].
• —— olecranon, [45].
• —— os calcis, [60].
• —— patella, [67].
• —— pelvis, [37].
• —— phalanges, [39].
• —— radius, [39], [44].
• —— rib, [36].
• —— tibia, [61].
• —— transverse ditto, [66].
• —— ulna, [43].
• French bulbous ended catheters, [130].
• Fumigation, [151].
• —— general, [152].
• —— local, [154].
• G.
• Gag, for stomach-pump, [143].
• Galvanic cautery, [168].
• Gas cautery, [166].
• Gauntlet for fractured radius, [42].
• Gauze, wire, [48].
• General rules, [1].
• Glove for metacarpal bones, [38].
• Glue, [89].
• Graduated compress, [17].
• Groin, spica for, [9].
• Gum and chalk, [89].
• Gums, leeches to, [159].
• Gutta-percha, [30], [38], [42], [49], [54], [70], [77], [94].
• H.
• Hæmorrhage, arrest of, [197].
• —— from the tonsils, [201].
• Hæmorrhagic diathesis, [126].
• Hæmorrhoids, [206].
• Hair suture, [116].
• Hammer, Corrigan’s, [169].
• Hand, bandaging the, [14].
• Handle for extending the thumb, [103].
• Hare-lip, [199].
• Head bandage, [3].
• —— ice bladder for, [7].
• Heat, dry, [172].
• Heel, to bandage the, [21].
• Hernia, [162].
• —— spica, [9].
• —— trusses for, [161].
• Hewitt’s transfusion apparatus, [145].
• Hides’ leather felt, [89].
• Hip-disease, extension in, [79].
• —— dislocation, [104].
• —— splint, [92].
• Hitch, the clove, [99].
• Hooks, Malgaigne’s, [71].
• Horizontal position in fractured clavicle, [57].
• Horse heel, [113].
• Horseshoe tourniquet, [148].
• Hot air bath, [154].
• —— fomentations, [172].
• —— water cushions, [172].
• How to hold a roller, [2].
• Humerus, fractures at lower end of, [47].
• —— great tuberosity, [56].
• —— neck of, [53].
• —— shaft of, [51].
• Hydrocele, tapping a, [208].
• I.
• Ice bladders on head, [7].
• —— cold injections, [118].
• Improvised tourniquet, [151].
• Incisor tooth, to draw, [123].
• Incline, double, [77].
• —— —— slung, [78].
• Injecting bottle, [137].
• —— syringe, [117].
• —— chloroform to the uterus, [187].
• —— the urethra, [128].
• Injection, subcutaneous, [187].
• Interdental splints, [33].
• Intracapsular fracture of neck of femur, [77].
• Iodine blisters, [170].
• Iridectomy, [199].
• Irons, cautery, [166].
• Irreducible hernia, [163].
• Irrigation, [177].
• Irrigator, Esmarch’s, [179].
• Irritants, [168].
• Issues, [161].
• —— pea, [161].
• J.
• Jacket, strait, [11].
• Jaw, fracture of, [30].
• —— resection of, [200].
• Joints, strapping, [27].
• —— to be included in starch and plaster of paris, [81], [87].
• Jugular vein, bandage for, [7].
• K.
• Kite’s tail plug, [128].
• Knee, bandage for, [22].
• —— resecting the, [212].
• Knee-pan, fracture of, [67].
• Knotted bandage, [4].
• L.
• L-shaped splint for arm, [49].
• Lamp for air bath, [154].
• Laryngotomy, [201].
• Lateral splints for the tibia, [66].
• Lavallée’s (Morel) splints, [33].
• Leather felt, Hides’, [89].
• —— splints, [90].
• —— —— for hip, [92].
• Leeches, [159].
• —— to make them bite, [159].
• —— to stop the bites, [160].
• —— in the mouth, [159].
• —— at the cervix uteri, [159].
• Leg, bandage for, [21].
• Ligature of arteries, [211].
• Linseed poultice, [171].
• Lister’s dressing, [172].
• —— tourniquet, [149].
• Liston’s long splint, [72].
• Lithotomy, [210].
• —— position, [140].
• Lithotrity, [210].
• Local anæsthesia, [186].
• Long splint, [72].
• Lower jaw, fracture of, [30].
• M.
• McIntyre’s splint, [63].
• Makeshift tourniquet, [151].
• Malgaigne’s hooks, [71].
• Manacles for delirious patients, [12].
• Manipulation in dislocations, [107].
• Many-tail bandage, [23].
• Marshall Hall’s method, [183].
• Materials for rollers, [1].
• Mayor’s double incline, [78].
• Mercurial fumigation, [152].
• —— ointment, [28].
• Metacarpal bones, fracture of, [37].
• Millboard for splints, [80].
• Mixing plaster, [115].
• Molar forceps, [124].
• —— teeth, [124].
• Morel Lavallée’s splints, [33].
• Muslin rollers for plaster of paris, [85].
• Mustard poultices, [169].
• N.
• Nævus, operating on, [203].
• Nares, plugging the, [119].
• Neck of humerus, fracture of, [53].
• Necrosed bone, removing, [213].
• Nipple shields, [126].
• —— artificial, [126].
• Nitrate of silver, [168].
• —— of mercury, [169].
• Nitric acid, fuming, [169].
• O.
• Olecranon, fracture of, [45].
• —— —— Hamilton’s splint for, [47].
• Operating room, the, [195].
• Operator’s position, [2].
• Ordinary bandages, [1].
• Os uteri, leeches to, [159].
• Outside splint for fractured jaw, [32].
• Ovariotomy, [205].
• —— cautery, [167].
• P.
• Palmar arch, wound of, [17].
• Paraffine, [89].
• Paris, bandages of plaster of, [85].
• —— plaster of, casting in, [114].
• —— —— splints of, [88].
• Passing catheters, [132].
• —— —— difficulties, [133].
• Pasteboard splints, [80].
• Pâte epispastique, [170].
• Patella, dislocation of the, [110].
• —— fracture of the, [67].
• —— —— Samborne’s plan, [70].
• —— back splint for, [69].
• Pelvis, fracture of the, [37].
• Penis, amputation of, [208].
• Perineal band, [73].
• Petit’s tourniquet, [147].
• Phalanges, broken, [39].
• Pistol splint, [40].
• Pleura, tapping the, [204].
• Plugging nares, [119].
• —— vagina, [127].
• Points for vaccine, [190].
• Poisons, stomach pump in, [143].
• Position of bandager, [1].
• —— for lithotomy, [140].
• Potassa fusa, [169].
• Poultice, [170].
• —— bread, [171].
• —— linseed, [171].
• —— mustard, [169].
• —— starch, [172].
• Prolapsus ani, [207].
• Pubes, dislocation on, [108].
• Pulley, extension by weight, [80].
• Pulleys, for dislocation, [104].
• Pulverised fluids, [186].
• Pump, the stomach, [143].
• R.
• Radius, fracture of, [39].
• —— near the head, [44].
• —— dislocation of, [102].
• Removing a starch bandage, [84].
• —— a plaster of paris bandage, [88].
• —— foreign bodies from urethra, [210].
• Respiration, artificial, [183].
• Restoratives, [197].
• Reverse turn, [2].
• Rib, broken, [36].
• —— roller for, [37].
• —— strapping, [36].
• Richardson’s spray producer, [186].
• Ring pad, [59].
• —— tourniquet, [147].
• Rollers, how to hold, [2].
• —— varieties of, [1].
• —— muslin, for plaster of paris, [85].
• Rules, general, [1].
• Ruptured tendo achillis, [59].
• Ruptures, [162].
• —— operation for, [206].
• S.
• Salter’s cradle, [64].
• Sand bags, [90].
• Scarificator, [157].
• Scarpa’s shoes, [111].
• Scott’s bandage, [28].
• Scultetus, bandage of, [23].
• Sedatives, [197].
• Separation of epiphysis of the os calcis, [60].
• —— of lower end of humerus, [47].
• Setons, [160].
• Shaft of humerus, [51].
• Shawl cap, [6].
• Shoes, Scarpa’s, [111].
• Shot-bag weight, [80].
• Shoulder, bandage for, [16], [55].
• —— cap, [54].
• —— dislocation at, [97].
• —— dislocation at, simple extension in, [100].
• —— fracture of, [53-56].
• —— resecting the, [211].
• Sick carriage, [155].
• —— room and bed, [196].
• Signoroni’s tourniquet, [148].
• Silicate of soda, [89].
• Silver catheters, [129], [132].
• —— —— tying in, [138].
• —— nitrate of, [168].
• Silvester’s method, [184].
• Skull, trephining the, [198].
• Sling for fracture, [52], [64].
• Slinging a starch bandage, [85].
• Slung double incline, [78].
• Sock, elastic, [24].
• Socket, a bleeding, [126].
• Sore nipples, [126].
• Sores, bed, [140].
• Sounds, [130].
• Sound, Belloc’s, [121].
• Spica for groin, [9].
• —— for hernia, [10].
• —— shoulder, [16], [55].
• —— for thumb, [14].
• Spiral turn, [2].
• Splay foot, [114].
• Splint, the long, [72].
• —— the hip, [92].
• Spray producer, [186].
• Starch bandage, [80].
• —— —— after long splint, [76].
• —— —— splints for, [82].
• —— —— time of applying, [81].
• —— poultice, [172].
• —— rollers, [82].
• Stirrup extension, [76].
• Stockings, elastic, [24].
• Stocking-webbing rollers, [1].
• Stomach pump, the, [142].
• Strait jacket, [11].
• Strangulated hernia, [206].
• Strapping, [25].
• —— ankle, [27].
• —— the breast, [25].
• —— joints, [27].
• —— —— with mercurial ointment, [28].
• —— plasters, [25].
• —— ribs, [36].
• —— testes, [26].
• —— ulcers, [27].
• Strictures of the urethra, [134].
• Stump, bandaging a, [22].
• —— extending, [23].
• Stumps, extracting, [125].
• Subcutaneous injection, [187].
• Supporting interdental splints, [35].
• Suspending the testes, [12].
• Swete’s carriage, [155].
• Syringing the ears, [117].
• T.
• T-bandage, [11].
• Taking off a starch bandage, [84].
• —— a plaster of paris bandage, [88].
• Talipes, [113].
• —— equinus, [113].
• —— valgus, [114].
• —— varus, [113].
• Tape for bleeding, [18].
• Tapping, bandage for, [10].
• Tendo achillis, ruptured, [59].
• Tents, [160].
• Testes, excising, [208].
• —— strapping, [26].
• —— suspending, [12].
• Testing a truss, [162].
• Thumb, bandage for, [14].
• —— dislocation of, [103].
• Tibia, fractures of, [61-67].
• Toe, bandaging a, [22].
• Tongue, excision of, [200].
• Tonsils, excision of, [201].
• —— bleeding, [201].
• Tooth drawing, [122].
• —— bicuspid, [124].
• —— canine, [123].
• —— incisor, [123].
• —— molar, [124].
• —— forceps, [122].
• Tourniquets, [147].
• —— abdominal, [149].
• —— Carte’s, [149].
• —— horseshoe, [148].
• —— makeshift, [151].
• —— Petit’s, [148].
• —— ring, [147].
• —— Signoroni’s, [148].
• Tracheotomy, [202].
• Transfusion of blood, [144].
• Transporting the sick, [155].
• Transverse fracture of the tibia, [66].
• Trunk, bandaging the, [8].
• Trusses, [161].
• —— femoral, [163].
• —— inguinal, [163].
• —— measuring for, [164].
• —— Salmon & Ody’s, [165].
• —— umbilical, [165].
• Tubes, drainage, [161].
• Turns, different, [2].
• Tying for lithotomy, [140].
• —— in a flexible catheter, [139].
• —— in a silver catheter, [138].
• U.
• Ulcers, strapping, [27].
• Ulna, fracture of, [43].
• Umbilical hernia, [165].
• Union, angular, [76].
• Urethra, conformation of, [132].
• —— injecting the, [128].
• Urethral syringe, [128].
• Urethrotomy, [209].
• Urine, retention of, [209].
• V.
• Vaccination, [190].
• Vagina, plugging the, [127].
• Valgus, [114].
• Vapour bath, the, [155].
• Varieties of turns, [2].
• —— of splints for the elbow, [48].
• Varus, [113].
• Venesection, [18].
• Vesicants, [169].
• Vesicle in vaccination, [191].
• Vesico-vaginal fistula, [209].
• Vienna paste, [169].
• Vitriol, oil of, [169].
• Vulcanised india-rubber catheter, [130], [136].
• Vulcanite splint for jaw, [34].
• W.
• Waistcoat, strait, [11].
• Washing out the bladder, [137].
• Water-bed, [141].
• —— can weight, [80].
• —— cushion, [142].
• Wedge-pad for fractured clavicle, [57].
• Weight for pulley, [80].
• Wire gauze splints, [48].
• Wood’s operation for hernia, [206].
• Wool, cotton, [14].
• Wound of palmar arch, [17].
• —— opening in splint for, [87].
• Z.
• Zinc, chloride of, [169].

THE END.

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