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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    jectionsto.on the ground of its difficulty, 142 ; is acupressure more difficult tlian ? 142-151 ; apt to lead to secondary litemon-hage, 155-158; introduced by Pare, 183; opposition to introduction of, 195-212 ; said to cause great pain, 249-251; instances of acupressure suc- ceeding where deligatiou liad faUed, 279-309 ; mortality after, 381. Dezimeris on the former opposition to deligation of arteries, 204. DieH'enhach — his use of leaden suture- threads, 501. Dix, use of lilopressui'e by, 335-338. Drainage-tubes, 271. Dressing—of ends ofboues, 16; of wounds, to be avoided, 110 ; secret, 136; water- dressing, 130. Dressings—retrospective notices of, 119- 141 ; their cumbersomeness in olden times, 126. EoRASEOB in ovariotomy, 433. Edinburgh Hospital, mortality in, nftei' oijerations, 194, 377. Edwards — acupressure in cases where deligation impossible, 283, 287, 294. Encystment of bullets in the body, 463. England, progress of deligation of arteries in, 206, 232. English surgery, revolutions in dressing of wounds in, 128. Erichsen—acupressiu'e only adapted for occlusion of small arteries, 252; large number of arterial ligatiu'es sometimes i-equired, 254. Exceptions—to law of tolerance of tissues for foreign metallic bodies, 4S4-4S6 ; to law of non-tolerance of tissues for dead foreign organic bodies, 4S6-4S8. Experiments on the relative advantages of metallic and organic sutures, 513. Eye, pieces of stone, glass, and iron lodged in with impunity, 474-475. Fabricitjs ab Aquapendente — recom- mends amputation thi'ough the morti- fied jjart, 3 ; on the uncertainty of stop- ping bleeding by the actual cautery, 3 ; his needle-suture, 97 and 497; on the removal of cancers by the cauteiy-knife, 217 ; by a horn or wooden knife ancl aquafortis, 218; on the advantages of metallic threads, 498. Fabricius Hildanus. See HUdanus. Fallopius aimed at jjrimary union after excision of the mamma, 231. Femoral artery, mortality after deligation or, 381. Ferguson—putrid animal substances poi- sonous, 391. Fergusson—tracks of ligatures useful as vents for pus, 202 ; acupressure might Ileal wounds too rapidly, 264 ; deligation sometimes impossible, 282 and 284; on leaden sutures hi staphyloraphy, 502. Ferrius, use of filopressure by, 312. Fibuhe, surgical, 497. , Filopressure—use of, 310-351; by Sanctus, 312; by Ferrius, 312 ; by Par6, 315 and 328; by GuUlemeau, 318 ; by Thevenin, 320; by Dionis, 321; by Louis, 323 ; by Lowe, 324; by Wiseman, 324; by Read, 324; by O'Halloran, 324 ; before ampu- tation at the slioulder-joint, 329 ; by Heister the son, 330; various improve- ments in mode of applying, 333 ; sug- gested by Mr. Hilliard, 335; used by Mr. Dix, 335-338; by Langenbeck, 338- 341; different kinds of pad used in, 343 ; sometimes inapplicable, 344; objections to its use, 345; modification of, to dimi- nish the amount of tissue compressed, 347-350. First intention. See Primary Union. Fistula in ano, use of wire ligatures in, 495. Force of arterial cun-ent, 153. Foreign materials, wound must be cleared of all, 103. Foucher—acupressure in woimds of the radial and temporal arteries, 291; acu- pressure m cases of ossified arteries, 304 and 306. Fretz, Capt*i—^liis case, 469. Galen—on primary union, 134 ; on the cautery-luiife, 217. Galvaiio-puncture of arteries, 168. Gangrene, hosjiital, contagious, 395. Germany, progress of deligatiou of ai-teries in, 229. Glass — examples of tolerance of living tissues for pieces of, 473, 474 ; piece of, lodged in the eye with iinpiuiity, 475. Glycerine, Demarquay on, 547. Gold—pieces of, worn under the skin, 465 ; wire—use of, in ancient surgery, 493; in ancient mythical surgery, 499. Golden stitch, 476 aud 494. Golden sutures—mentioned by Rhodius, 500; use of, by Mihles, 501; by Percy, 501. Gosset—his use of gilt wire in vesico-va- ginal fistula, 503 ; on the advantages of the gilt wire suture, 504. Gourmelon—his attack on Par6, 195 ; butchery and craelty of the ligature, 280. Guillenieau—liis I'cjeclion of the ligature, 196 ; use of fiilopressure by, 318. Gun-breeching lodged among the bones of the face, 468 and 469. Gnu-cotton as a wound-lute, 545-548. Gunshot wounds supposed to be veneuate, 120. Guy de Chauliac—number of cauteiy-irons requii'ed, 197. Guy's Hospital—mortality after surgical operations in, 377 aud 380 ; causes of death after surgical oxJerations in, 385. H.EMOREHAGE—ancient dread of it, 1-5 ; secondary—is it more liable to occur with acupressure, or with deligatiou ? 152-164 ; small amount of force required