Notes on the progress of acupressure / by Sir J.Y. Simpson.

Date:
1867
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Credit: Notes on the progress of acupressure / by Sir J.Y. Simpson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Rapid healing as comparatively complete. But what of the of wounds.] . other question— Does it accelerate the Healing of Wounds ? In his—the largest—portion of the conjoint treatise on Acupressure by himself and Dr. Keith, Professor Pirrie has described all the special cases in which he used acupressure in capital operations, with the most conscientious and scrupulous exactitude ; and I will try here to summarise the results obtained. To understand these Results,—which are far more important than the mere facility and rapidity of the process, —let me first adduce the opinion which Dr. Pirrie holds as to what constitutes union by the first intention or by primary adhesion. In reference to this point Dr. Pirrie states: “ The use of the ligature is attended with an insuperable obstacle to obtaining perfect examples either of immediate union or of union by primary ad- hesion without the formation of some pus. 1 have never allowed myself to call any case a perfect example of either of these two methods of healing where a single drop of pus was seen. Neither of these two methods of healing, in this sense, can be perfect in any case where the liga- ture is used. The immediate effects of the liga- ture—the changes by which its removal is ren-