Wounds or burns about the scalp or forehead must be kept in place by means of the roller bandage. This is applied in the following way :

Bandaging the head. 1st position. The nurse stands behind the patient with the larger roll in the left hand the smaller in the right

Bandaging the head. 2nd position. The vertical bandage is brought across the top of the head to the root of the nose, the nurse bringing the horizontal bandage round the forehead in her right hand to fix it

Take two roller bandages about two and a half inches in width, and stitch them together end to end. It is better to make one roller larger than the other by winding up about one-third of the lesser bandage. Now stand behind the patient, and take the larger roller in the left hand and the small roller in the right, and apply the bandage right across the forehead above the eyebrows. Then carry the roller horizontally backwards above the ears until the hands meet in the middle line at the nape of the neck. Now cross the large roller over the small, and pull them tightly. Take the small roll, now called the vertical bandage, right over the top of the head along the middle line to the root of the nose.

Carry the large roll round the right ear until it reaches the vertical bandage at the root of the nose, which it should cross, and thus fix.

Bandaging the head. 3rd position. The vertical bandage, after being secured by the horizontal one, is carried across the top of the head to the left of the middle line

Now the vertical bandage is taken back over the head to the left of the middle line to the nape of the neck and the horizontal bandage is carried round past the left ear to fix the vertical one at the back. The vertical bandage is now brought again across the top of the head to the right of the middle line and is fixed by a horizontal bandage in its journey round the head. Continue carrying the vertical bandage across the head, keeping on the left side as you pass to the nape of the neck, and going forward again on the right side, each time fixing the roll with the horizontal bandage as it encircles the head. Gradually the top of the head is covered and the vertical bandage can be cut off and fastened by carrying the horizontal bandage twice round the head and pinning it.