Acupressure : an excellent method of arresting surgical hæmorrhage and of accelerating the healing of wounds / by William Pirrie and William Keith.

  • William Pirrie
Date:
1867
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Credit: Acupressure : an excellent method of arresting surgical hæmorrhage and of accelerating the healing of wounds / by William Pirrie and William Keith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CASE VI.—AMPUTATION OF THIGH—FLAP OPEKATION. Acupressure by the Foicrih Metlwd. George E., aged 12, from Newhills, was admitted into hospital on 6t]i March, 1865. He labours under necrosis of the tibia in his right leg, extensive abscess of the thigh surrounding the knee-joint, and diagnosed to communicate with the joint ; the boy greatly reduced in flesh and strength ; the collections of pus were, one after another, freely emptied by incisions, and his strength recruited as much as possible by rest and generous diet, but it was the 3rd of May before matters were quiet enough about the limb to admit of amputa- tion with any chance of success. At twelve noon of May 3 the limb was removed at mid thigh, under chloroform, and five arteries were speedily pinned under, and looped over by a wire loop —in other words, they were all secured by Simpson's Fourth mode. The wound was closed by wire stitches —no dressing applied—not an ooze has followed the closure of the wound. The pin-heads varied in colour, so that each vessel was individualized by this protrud- ing pin-head, while the length of each pin selected was regulated by the distance of the artery from the margin or nearest angle of the wound, the pin-head visible outside, the free point for steadiness being stuck into any adjoining muscle. At four p.m. not a Y