The American journal of the medical sciences (1827)
[Thorofare, N.J., etc.] Charles B. Slack [etc.] · leaf 43
r. This is placed longitudi- nally in the middle of a piece of cotton cloth six feet six inches in length, rolled up tightly, and fixed by stitches. The free cotton cloth extends two feet from each end of the cylinder. The latter is bent so that one end overlaps the other about three inches, and is… … a half in its transverse diameter, and is rolled longitudinally into one end of a piece of cloth three feet six inches in length, so that there is but one free end of cloth, and that two feet long (see Fig. 2).
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