The American journal of the medical sciences (1827)
[Thorofare, N.J., etc.] Charles B. Slack [etc.] · leaf 366
r strips of adhesive plaster cut lengthwise with the piece and varying in length and breadth according to the size of the limb, are provided, say about eighteen inches long by two inches wide for an adult. Each of them is then split up from one end for about half its length ; the end which remains… … is made by the two lower strips, against counter-extension by the two upper ones, the force being increased or lessened by tying the ends of the bandage more or less tightly. I have introduced these remarks on this mode of making extension, be- cause I believe it to add very much to the security of…
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