El vendaje, técnica que tradicionalmente ha sido competencia de enfermería, encuentra en los manuales una importante herramienta de formación a lo largo de la historia. Se ha analizado un manual iconográfico del siglo XIX sobre este tema y comparado su contenido y estructura con varios textos de finales del siglo XX, descubriendo que son más numerosas las similitudes que las diferencias entre los libros de ambos siglos
Bandaging, a technique which has traditionally been associated with nursing, has been described in the sources throughout history as a key skill to possess. Healthcare professionals from all times have found in these texts or training manuals an important source of practical knowledge. An iconographic manual of bandaging published in the nineteen century has been analysed and compared, in terms of both contents and structure, with several texts printed in the late twentieth century. We have found more similarities than differences between them