The breast is bandaged by using a four-inch roller bandage of gauze, flannel, or other material. If the right side of the chest or the right breast is to be bandaged, begin by making two turns round the waist, or a little above the waist from right to left - that is, begin in front of the right side, and carry the bandage round across the body in front and round the back, taking two turns to fix it. Now you have reached the starting place in front of the chest on the right side.

Carry the bandage across the chest to the left shoulder, and across the back, bringing it to the starting place again. Carry it round the body once, at a little higher level than the first horizontal turn round the waist, to the starting place. Now the roller is taken across over the left shoulder a little higher than the previous turn so as to cover more of the chest. Repeat these turns, first horizontally and then obliquely, over the shoulder and down the back until the right side of the chest is covered.

To bandage the breast first take two turns round the waist, then carry the bandage over the shoulder

To bandage the left breast you would begin below the left side, go round the body from left to right, and then up over the right shoulder.

All these bandages should be practised two or three times by the nurse, until she can apply them almost mechanically.

The bandage is next carried across the shoulder, down the back to the starting point, and again round the waist