Bandages

Bandaging, as a way of fixing a dressing on a wound, was known as long ago as in antiquity. However, different kinds of bandages and the ways of their application depending on their assignment and body areas ceased to exist relatively late, because at the turn of the 17th century. Rapid development of technology and textile industry at the turn of the centuries resulted in 15 kinds of elastic bandages of different width and length. While, at the beginning of the 20th century there appeared cohesive elastic bandages. Although, both doctors and producers have always tried to outdo each other in inventing different kinds of dressings and bandages, most of their ideas from the beginning of the 20th century were rather useless. Nowadays, the group of bandages can be divided into non-elastic bandages, recommended for permanent fixing of dressings, and elastic bandages, assigned for fixing dressings as well as for the therapy of motor system injuries and of chronic diseases of venous and lymphatic.