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PlO. 178.— Bandage for Transversal Wound. 



three or four strips in one-half of its length, the other having in 

 its middle an equal number of longitudinal slits, smaller than 

 those of the first, these two being fixed parallel to the axis of the 

 leg, one above the other below the wound, by several turns of 

 roUers, and by passing the strips of one through the correspond- 

 ing shts of the other, the edges of the wound will, by opposite 

 traction upon the bandages, be necessarily brought together and 

 supported in that position (Fig. 178.) 



The same method answers for longitudinal wounds, though 

 simpler in structure ; this bandage, consisting of a single band of a 

 vridth equal to the length of the wound, and prepared with strips 

 and corresponding sUts, as just described, at a distance of about 

 three-quarters of the circumference of the leg. Thus prepared, and 

 compressive pads placed on each side of the wound, the bandage 

 is manipulated as in the other cases, and when it is aU properly 

 adjusted, is further secured by rolling it around the leg over the 

 strips (Fig. 179.) 



C. — ^Adhesive Sticking oe AaGLUTmATiNG Plastees. 



These descriptive terms refer either to certain special mixtures 

 which are applied either directly, and alone upon the solutions of 

 continuity, or spread upon Hnen, in the form of the ordinary 



