To bandage the Breast.
Apparatus.—1. A roller 3 inches wide and 8 yards long.
The roller is first carried once round the body below the breast, beginning in front and passing towards the sound side. When the bandage is fixed, the roller ascends over the lower part of the diseased breast, to the opposite shoulder, and comes back by the arm-pit to the horizontal turn; it is then passed round the chest to fix the oblique turn. Having done this, it again is carried up over the breast and shoulder, and round the body in alternate turns until the breast is fully compressed, each turn over the breast being carried higher than the preceding one, and each turn round the body overlapping the oblique turn to keep it in place (see fig. 7).
Fig. 7.—Bandage for a Breast.
To bandage both Breasts.—This is readily done by first bandaging one breast and then, carrying the roller over the shoulder of the side already bandaged, bringing it across the sternum and under the second breast on to the horizontal turns, which it follows alternately with the oblique ones, as was done in bandaging the first breast. The only difference is, that in compressing the first breast the bandage was passed obliquely upwards, for the second it is carried obliquely downwards over the breast.
Spica Bandage.
Apparatus.—1. A roller or 2½ or 3 inches wide.
2. Some pins.
