To apply a single-headed bandage, lay the _outside of the end_ near to
the part to be bandaged, and hold the roll between the little, ring
and middle fingers, and the palm of the left hand, using the thumb and
forefinger of the same hand to guide it, and the right hand to keep it
firm, and pass the bandage partly round the leg towards the left hand.
It is sometimes necessary to reverse this order, and therefore it is
well to be able to use both hands.
Particular parts require a different method of applying bandages, and
therefore it is necessary to describe the most useful separately; and
there are different ways of putting on the same bandage, which consist
in the manner the folds or turns are made. For example, the _circular_
bandage is formed by horizontal turns, each of which overlaps the one
made before it; the _spiral_ consists of spiral turns; the _oblique_
follows a course oblique or slanting to the centre of the limb; and
the _recurrent_ folds back again to the part whence it started.