" MANY - TAILED " BANDAGES.
[To THE EDITOR OF THR "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Might I ask you to give publicity to this letter ? So many people are making the " many-tailed " bandages, used for abdominal cases. Now, at the depot where I have been helping I notice that so far not one person has sent them in properly folded, and the consequence is that it takes one person's time to undo and refold them, when it might just as easily be done in the first instance, and much time be saved. The way to fold a " many-tailed" bandage is this : You collect the overlapping tails and pin the extreme ends together with a safety-pin—each side respectively. You then fold or roll each side towards the centre. When both have been brought up to the centre you fold in the "tail-piece" (supposing there is one), and then fold the one side of the bandage over the other. It is then in the right condition to hand to the surgeon. I notice that many are made with very long ends, but as the raison d'être of a "many-tail" is to lap over, piece by piece, taking the figure of the patient and fitting comfortably because he cannot be moved to have a bandage swathed round him, those very long-tailed ones seem uncalled for. A yard and a half of flannel wraps round the body of any man and will give eight good widths for the tails, making a broad bandage even when each piece is overlapped.—I am,
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