The essentials of bandaging /

Chapter 3: PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION.

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This practical manual provides concise, illustrated instructions for applying bandages and surgical apparatus, with chapters on materials, operator technique, bandaging of specific body regions, strapping methods, and management of fractures and dislocations of head, trunk, and limbs. It describes common turns and splints, approaches to immobilisation and extension, and offers procedures for dressing wounds, supporting stumps, and using elastic and plaster appliances. An appendix supplies lists of preparations, instruments, and items recommended for sick-room and operating-room use, presented as checklists to help students and practitioners refresh practical skills.

PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION.

The descriptions and directions for using surgical apparatus in the following pages, are those originally prepared for oral delivery in a short course of practical lessons in bandaging and the application of surgical apparatus, given by me in University College Hospital. No attempt is made to include all efficient modes of treating surgical injuries: it is merely proposed to supply the student or practitioner with instructions by which he may refresh his memory when about to employ the ordinary surgical appliances.

The drawings are by Mr. R. W. Sherwin, who has taken much pains to furnish exact representations of the apparatus, as it was applied by myself for his delineation. The directions for giving chloroform have had the advantage of Mr. Clover’s revision before publication.

14, Weymouth Street, W.
October, 1867.