Observations on the medical effects of compression by the tourniquet.

  • Kellie, George, -1829.
Date:
1797
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Observations on the medical effects of compression by the tourniquet. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    [ II*. ] and they confequently ceafe when, by com- preflion, the inflamed veflels are rendered quiefcent; and the tumefadlion of an inflamed part is reduced, when the comprefled veflels are drained of their contents, by opening a vein below the tourniquet. Might not inflammations of the extremities be fpeedily cured by comprefling the arteries, fupplying the afle&ed parts, and then emptying the inflamed veflels, by opening a correfpond- ent vein, or by fcarifying the inflamed fur- face ? In the incipient ftate of white-fwellings, and in acute inflammations of the joints, might not fuch a practice be ufeful ? LETTER