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attached. If one cotton string is used (fig. 13 A) the process is as 
follows: Operations are commenced by making a slipknot () at the 
proximal extremity (a) of the string, which is held more or less taut by 
being wound over the little finger, the loop formed by the slipknot 
being passed over the forefinger (LF); the distal or ball end (6) of the 
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Fig. 13.—Cording with one string. 
string is looped over the thumb (LT) and then over the forefinger. 
The first loop on the forefinger is now passed over and in front of the 
second loop (B), and tightened (C) by pulling on the proximal end of 
the string. The distal extremity is next looped on the thumb (D), 
the previous loop there being passed over it in similar fashion (E), the 
whole being next tightened by pulling—first, on the upper half of the 
