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BANDAGES 



The catalogue of means and appliances for di-essing is by no 

 means exhausted in those already mentioned. Among them are 

 the various forms of compresses, the rollers, the splints, the plates 

 and the means of drainage, with the various forms of rolled ban- 

 dages, wide bandages and mechanical bandages. 



(a) Coinjoresses. — These are pads made of linen, of various 

 sizes and shapes, and folded to any degree of thickness required, 

 which are sometimes aj^plied immediately upon the wound, but 

 usually uj)on the oakum. They are not, however, of frequent use 

 in veterinary surgery, excej)t under special indications. They 

 may be square, long, triangular, shaped like a neck-tie, or like a 

 Maltese cross, either complete or half, double or treble-tailed, and 

 generally patterned and graduated according to the form required 





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-Square Compress. 



Fig. 96.— Long Compress. 



Fig. 97.— Triangular 

 Compress. 



Fig. 98.— Neck-Tie Compress. 



Fig. 99.— Maltese Cross Complete. 



Fig. 100.— Half Maltese Cross Complete 



Fig. 101.— Double Compress. 



Fig. 102.— Treble Compress. 



