Oral surgery : a text book of diseases of the mouth intended chiefly for the use of students of dentistry / by Edmund W. Roughton.

  • Roughton, Edmund W.
Date:
[between 1890 and 1899?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Oral surgery : a text book of diseases of the mouth intended chiefly for the use of students of dentistry / by Edmund W. Roughton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Treatment. The following are the methods most frequently used. (1) The four-tailed Bandage. A pieue of bandage a yard long and 4 inches wide,with a hole 2 inches long in the middle of it, and with the ends split to within four inches of the hole, is applied so that the point of the chin is received into the hole. (Fig. 2.) The hole should be about an inch nearer the Fia 2.—THE FOUR-TAILED BANDAGE APPLIED. O * upper than the lower edge of the bandage, so that the latter may lift the jaw rather than tend to drag it backwards. The two lower tails are tied over the top of the head, and the two upper ones behind the occiput, the two portions being subse- quently knotted together to prevent their slipping. If the upper tails are tied behind the nape of the neck (as recom-