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which, presenting natural depressions, or hollows, would, 
unless thus filled up, have proved as many obstacles to the 
firm and steady application of the bandages. Each limb, 
nay, each finger and toe, had a separate bandage next to the 
skin. 
These observations respecting the art of bandaging among 
the ancient inhabitants of Egypt, as displayed in their best 
class of mummies, have not, as far as I recollect, been made 
before to the extent here alluded to, and will throw a new 
light on the history of that branch of practical surgery. 
The principal rollers appear to be made of a very compact, 
yet elastic linen, some of them from four to five yards in 
length, without any stitch or seam in any part of them. There 
were also some large square pieces thrown around the head, 
thorax and abdomen, of a less elastic texture. These pieces 
were found to alternate with the complete swathing of the 
whole body. They occurred four distinct times ; while the 
bandaging, with rollers and other fasciae, was repeated, at 
least, twenty times. 
The numerous bandages by which the mummy was thus 
enveloped, were themselves wholly covered by a roller three 
inches and a half wide and eleven yards long, which, after 
making a few turns around both feet, ascended in graceful 
spirals to the head, whence descending again as far as the 
breast, it was fixed there. The termination of this outer roller 
is remarkable for the loose threads hanging from it in the 
shape of a fringe, and for certain traces of characters im- 
printed on it, similar to those described and delineated by 
JoMARD in the Description de I* Egypte. One or two of these 
