Observations on the medical effects of compression by the tourniquet.

  • Kellie, George, -1829.
Date:
1797
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Credit: Observations on the medical effects of compression by the tourniquet. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    * [ 100 ] made on the external iliacs, the plethora will exilt chiefly in the branches of the internal iliacs, the caeliac, mefenteric, and emulgent ar- teries •' and hence lumbago, and the pain of the loins in the cold ftage of fever, are mod effectually and fpeedily removed when the tourniquets are applied to the lower extre- mities. Thus, in ammenorrhsea, it has been propofed to Simulate the uterine velfels, by determining the blood more copioufly into them, by com- prefling the external iliacs; and if the trials of this kind hitherto made have feldom fucceeded, the failure may be attributed paitly to the timidity of the operator frpm preconceived apprehenflons of internal hscmorrhagy, hut chiefly, as I ap- prehend, to this circumftance, that fuch large arterial trunks as the iliacs cannot be com- prefled for a fufficient length of time, without vertigo and deliquium being induced. Again, H