3233. Pads are made by sewing tow inside pieces of linen, or folding linen and sewing the pieces together. They are used to keep off pressure from parts, such as that caused by splints in fractures.
BANDAGES.
3234. Bandages are strips of calico, linen, flannel, muslin, elastic webbing, bunting, or some other substance, of various lengths, such as three, four, eight, ten, or twelve yards, and one, one and a-half, two, two and a-half, three, four, or six inches wide, free from hems or darns; soft and unglazed.
3235. They are better after they have been washed.
3236. Bandages are simple and compound; the former are simple slips rolled up tightly like a roll of ribbon.