Acupressure : a new method of arresting surgical hœmorrhage and of accelerating the healing of wounds / by James Y. Simpson.

  • Simpson, James Young, 1811-1870.
Date:
1864
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Credit: Acupressure : a new method of arresting surgical hœmorrhage and of accelerating the healing of wounds / by James Y. Simpson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Le Dran, Morand, and others, remarks that there are cases which require this amputation; but/' adds this leading London surgeon of his day, the apprehension of losing their patients on the spot by the haemorrhage has deterred surgeons from undertaking it.^ Though in modern days stripped of its ancient terrors, haemorrhage still forms a study of the very highest surgical importance, because it consti- tutes a complication in almost all varieties of severe surgical operations—in all in which the knife is employed. Hence, any question of moment connected with it is a question which is at once connected with nearly the whole range of opera- tive surgery. Supposed improvements in indi- vidual operations—as in the position, for example, or the length, or the breadth, or the shape of the incisions or flaps in any special amputation—afiect that one special amputation only, and have little or no bearing on general surgery. Their discussion, 1 Amputation at the Shoulder.—Sharp's Treatise on the Operations of Surgery, 3d edit. (1740), p. 221. He had, he says, heard of its having been done once.