814. To Apply a Single-Headed Bandage
To apply a single-headed bandage, lay the
outside of the end
near to the part to be bandaged, and hold the roll between the little, ring and middle fingers, and the palm of the left hand, using the thumb and forefinger of the same hand to guide it, and the right hand to keep it firm, and pass the bandage partly round the leg towards the left hand. It is sometimes necessary to reverse this order, and therefore it is well to be able to use both hands.
Particular parts require a different method of applying bandages, and therefore it is necessary to describe the most useful separately; and there are different ways of putting on the same bandage, which consist in the manner the folds or turns are made. For example, the
circular
bandage is formed by horizontal turns, each of which overlaps the one made before it; the
spiral
consists of spiral turns; the