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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    however interesting, is comparatively trivial, be- cause the subject is narrow and limited. Any leading question, on the contrary, connected with haemorrhage involves its application, not to any one special amputation, but to all amputations and to all other operations in which the surgeon uses cutting instruments. In yet another point of view, the subject of haemorrhage is most important. The means of arresting bleeding in surgical wounds, and the means of closing and healing these wounds with such quietude and rapidity as to conduce alike to the comfort and the safety of the patient, are two departments of practice which have always advanced hand in hand in the past progress of the art. Improvements in surgical haemostatics have led on to corresponding improvements in the management of surgical wounds. For they are two matters of practice that are inseparably allied; though forming, as it were, the one the commence- ment and the other the end of every surgical oper- ation. Indeed, as was remarked half a century ago by my beloved and sagacious master, Professor