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of wadding a couple of yards long and about 10 inches 

 wide. Wrap the leg round with the wadding, one piece 

 over the other ; apply round it, rather loosely, a calico 

 bandage (which can be got ready-made from any chemist, or 

 can be constructed out of a piece of unbleached calico) 

 about 6 yards long and 3 inches wide, so as to keep the 

 wadding in place ; and tightly apply another and similar 

 calico bandage, so as to afford firm and evenly-distributed 

 pressure on the leg, and secure it by tapes, sewing, or 

 by a safety pin. 



With the amount of wadding which has been recommended 

 to be used, there is practically no danger of putting on the 

 second bandage too tightly. It is easier to distribute the 

 pressure evenly with two bandages than with one. If we 

 cannot get cotton wadding, we may substitute y% Ib. of 

 ordinary cotton-wool (the medicated kind will not do so 

 well, because it has lost a great portion of its elasticity), 

 and arrange it round the leg. When using cotton-wool for 

 the object in question, its presence next the skin sometimes 

 gives rise to irritation probably on account of the pressure not 

 having been properly distributed which untoward result can 

 be obviated by, in the first instance, wrapping the leg loosely 

 round with a piece of soft cotton cloth, or by putting on an 

 ordinary flannel bandage, and the cotton-wool over it. Irrita- 

 tion of the leg is never caused by the cotton wadding bandage 

 put on in the manner described. I have been the first to 

 introduce into veterinary and stable practice this application 

 of pressure, which has been long known in human practice, 

 and which was first brought to my notice by Dr. Henderson 

 of Shanghai. 



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