A lecture on the situation of the large blood-vessels of the extremities; and the methods of making effectual pressure on the arteries, in cases of dangerous effusions of blood from wounds: delivered to the scholars of the late Maritime School at Chelsea; and first printed for their use / [Sir William Blizard].

William Blizard

Date:: 1798

Credit: A lecture on the situation of the large blood-vessels of the extremities; and the methods of making effectual pressure on the arteries, in cases of dangerous effusions of blood from wounds: delivered to the scholars of the late Maritime School at Chelsea; and first printed for their use / [Sir William Blizard]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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If a mufcle, the fibres of which are united in one tendon, be partially divided, the ef- fects will probably be more violent than if the whole were cut through. In the cafe of a puntured wound, (by a fmall fword or bayonet for infiance,) no inquiry into its depth or penetration fhould be made, by probing or otherwife. Gratifi- cation of curiofity, in this cafe, may prove fatal, but never can be productive of the leafi benefit. Life will often depend entirely upon immediate agglutination ; to promote which, all the means propofed for pre- venting and removing irritation and in- flammation fhould be rigidly employed. A probe would break down the tender gluti- nous medium, and irritate the fenfible extre- mities of the divided veflels, upon whole gentle action fuccefs altogether depends. — There is no cafe in which attention to pofi- tion is more required than in this; and it fhould be remembered that no part about the trunk can be at reft otherwife than in a recumbent fituation.

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