BANDAGES. 



BANDAGES 



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The catalogue of means and appliances for dressing is by no 

 means exhausted in those already mentioned. Among them are 

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

 and the means of drainage, with the various forms of oUed ban 

 dages, wide bandages and mecha^cal bandages 

 _ («) Compresses—These are pads made of Hnen, of various 

 ^^s and shapes and folded to any degree of thickness re™ 

 which are sometnnes appHed immediately upon the wound bu 

 usu^y upon the oaJnxm. They are not, however, of frequent use 

 m yetermary surgery, except under special indications. They 

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

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

 generaUy patterned and graduated according to the form required 



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Fio. 95.— Square Compress. 



Fio. 96.— Long Compress. 



Fig. 97.— Triangular 

 Compress. 



Fig. 98.— Neck-Tie Compress. 



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Fig. 99.— Maltese Cross Complete. 



Fig. 100.— Half Maltese Cross Complete. 



Fig. 101 Double Compress. 



Fig. 102.— Treble Compress. 



