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The First Lines of the Practice of Surgery; Designed as an Introduction for Students, and a Concise Book of Reference for Practitioners
The First Lines of the Practice of Surgery Designed as an Introduction for Students and a Concise Book of Reference for Practitioners Author:Samuel Cooper General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1813 Original Publisher: Longman Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select ... more »from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAP. XIII. MEANS OF STOPPING HEMORRHAGE. WHEN an artery is wounded, the blood is of a bright scarlet colour, and gushes from the vessel per saltum, and with great rapidity. The blood issues from a vein in an even, unbroken stream, and is of a dark purple red colour. It must he plain to every one, who understands the course of the circulation, that pressure, made on that portion of a wounded artery, which adjoins the wound towards the heart, must check the effusion of blood. The current of blood in the veins, running in the opposite directien, requires the pressure to be applied to that side of the wound, which is'most remote from the heart. As pressure is the most rational means of impeding hemorrhage, so it is the most effectual, and almost all the plans employed for this purpose, are only modifications of it. The tourniquet, the ligature, the application of a roller and compresses, even agaric itself, only become useful in the suppression of hemorrhage, on the principle of pressure. The structure of the blood-vessels is similar to that of other parts. They have their own arteries, veins, and absorbents, and are susceptible of inflammation, ulceration,« less