Identifier: operativesurgery00pipe (find matches)
Title: Operative surgery illustrated : containing more than nineteen hundred engravings : including two hundred original, and fifty colored drawings: with explanatory text
Year: 1852 (1850s)
Authors: Piper, Richard Upton, 1816-1897 Bigelow, Henry Jacob, 1818-1890. Anaesthetic agents, their mode of exhibition, and physiological effects
Subjects: Surgery, Operative Ether General Surgery
Publisher: Boston : Ticknor, Reed, and Fields
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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plate clxt.I OPEKATIVE SUEGERY ILLUSTKATED. 279 PLATE CLXI. Bandaging. Fig. 1. The Capelina is formed by a double-headed roller,(Fig. 8.) The centre of the roller is placed upon the occiput.After two or three circles, the rollers intersect with each other uponthe forehead and occiput, one being then reflected over the vertexto the forehead, while the other is continued in a circular course.They next cross each other upon the forehead, where the first headis carried obliquely backward to the occiput, and reflected by theside of the other; the last is continued in a circular direction, butthe first is again brought over the head, and carried in this way back-ward and forward till the head is entirely covered. This bandagewas used by the ancients to compress the heads of hydrocephalicpatients. Figs. 2, 14. The Six-tailed Bandage is formed of a pieceof cloth a yard long, and a quarter of a yard wide, split at each end,as in Fig. 14, to within three fingers breadth of the centre. Thecentre

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