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Credit: Notes on the progress of acupressure / by Sir J.Y. Simpson. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![wounds are tlius closed and healed in days, Dr. rime* instead of weeks and months ; and without those continuous dreaded dressings, and drainings of pus, which deligation usually, and almost inevitably, involves among its consequences. In the way of illustrating these results let me adduce an individual case—a kind of evidence which, to some minds, is more impressive than any mode or amount of reasoning. For this purpose I might cite several, but I shall content myself with an abridgment of the last of the thirty two cases which Dr.Pirrie details, having, for another purpose, already given (foot-note, p. 15) a similar abridg- ment of his first case. This 32d case was, like his illustrative 1st case, one of Amputation of the Thigh, on account a\Zpfiiatim’ of extensive disease of the knee-joint, in a “deli- cate-looking” boy, six years of age. The femoral and two other arteries were acupressed. The pins were withdrawn in forty-four horns, without, as the patient said, “ causing any pain.” “ After operation ” (says Dr. Pirrie) “ I thought it neces- sary to caution the little fellow not to touch the acupressure-pins, which he called the pins with the beautiful [glass] heads; and I promised to give them to him after their removal. He took great care not to touch them, or allow any person ex- cept myself to do so; and, to his great delight,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21944143_0021.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
