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Title: A handbook of obstetrical nursing for nurses, students, and mothers
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Fullerton, Anna M. (Anna Martha), 1853-1938
Subjects: Maternity nursing
Publisher: Philadelphia, P. Blakiston, son & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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hen the baby nurses,is the double-Y bandage, used in the Boston Lying-in Hospital. The manner of putting it on is thusdescribed by Dr. Worcester : A single T bandageis first made by folding a napkin lengthwise so thatfor an average-sized patient it shall be 32 in. longby 3 in. wide. At the middle of this, and at. rightangles to it, is pinned, just between its folds, a nap-kin of the same size, similarly folded. This T ban-dage is next made into a Y bandage, by making adiagonal fold in the middle of the cross-piece andfastening the corners of the plait with safety-pinson the outside. The bandage is now ready to puton. The tail-piece is passed under the womansback, snug up to her armpits, so that the fork of theY just clears one nipple when that breast is heldupward and inward on the chest. The tail-pieceon the other side is carried up on the chest directly MANAGEMENT OF THE LYING-IN. I9I over the breast. The arms of the Y are thenbrought over the chest, one above and the other Fig. 31.
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Worcesters Y Bandage. The upper figure shows the double Y breast bandagein position ; the lower left-hand figure shows how the Y bandage is made.The third figure shows how the double Y bandage is completed by fasten-ing the arms of the Y to the tail-piece on the patients opposite side. below the breasts, and their ends pinned to the tail-piece, so as to hold both breasts in similar posi-tion. A compress of soft linen may be placed 192 OBSTETRICAL NURSING. between the bandage and the outside of the breastsand also between the breasts, to prevent their chaf-ing. To keep the bandage from slipping downstraps of muslin may be passed over the shouldersand pinned back and front. To keep it from slip-ping up, it may be fastened to the abdominalbandage. The bandages referred to are very use-ful while the patient is in bed, but when she beginsto sit up and wear ordinary clothing they will be Fig. 32.

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