3237. There is also another simple kind which is rolled from both ends—this is called a double-headed bandage.
3238. The compound bandages are formed of many pieces.
3239. Bandages for the head should be two inches wide and five yards long; for the neck, two inches wide and three yards long; for the arm, two inches wide and seven yards long; for the leg, two inches and a half wide and seven yards long; for the thigh, three inches wide and eight yards long; and for the body, four or six inches wide and ten or twelve yards long.
3240. To apply a single-headed bandage, lay the outside of the end next to the part to be bandaged, and to hold the roll between the little, ring, and middle fingers and the palm of the left hand, using the thumb and fore-finger of the same hand to guide it, and the right hand to keep it firm, and pass the bandage partly round the leg toward the left hand.
3241. It is sometimes necessary to reverse this order, and therefore it is well to be able to use both hands.