Excerpt from An Illustrated System of Bandaging: Selected From Goffres Pr cis De Bandages; By Order of the Surgeon-General Bandages receive names from their composition; they are termed simple when composed of one piece, and compound when composed of one or more pieces, whether separate or, sewed together. The different pieces of a bandage may be simple, or split into a number of tails, or perforated; some are both split and perforated. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.