BANDAGES AND BANDAGING 



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and supported it is rolled up into a firm regular cylinder. The most 

 common position in which a bandage is required to be applied is below the 

 knee and hock, and very little practice is needed to render a person efficient 

 in the performance of this simple operation. With the patient standing- 

 still, and a free end of about twelve inches of the bandage unfolded, we 

 may proceed to make a cast round the limb. The free end is first placed 

 upon the leg and the bandage unrolled over it. The bandage held in 



Fig. 450. — Bandaging a Fore-Leg, showing 

 the method of applying the bandage over a 

 pad of cotton-wool 



Fig. 451. — Bandaging a Fore-Leg, showing 

 bandage completed and tied. 

 A, End of bandage with tapes 



the 



the right hand is then carried round the limb again and again until the 

 whole is payed out. It is then secured by means of the tapes which are 

 now set free. The chief point to be observed in going down the limb is to 

 keep the top edge of the bandage tight, while permitting the lower edge to 

 be slack; the reverse conditions being necessary in coming up again. In 

 this manner the hollows and the eminences receive equal pressure, and the 

 tapes are tied upon a double portion where their pressure is not likely to 

 be objectionable. If bandaging the leg of a dog we should begin at the 

 toes, but the horse having an unyielding hoof (so far as the pressure of a 

 bandage goes) we do not do so, and for convenience usually begin above 



