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.

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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    [ ] ftill of latitude, and dull pain, which he terms a heavinefs in his forehead. Belly cofiive; pulfe 81. Sumat pil. cathartic, gr. xij. 17* Returned to his duty, cured. CASE VI. William Pritchard. May 21. Was taken ill laft night, and com- plains this morning of laflitude, headach, pains in his thighs, legs, and back ; inflammation of the tonfils, and painful deglutition. ■ 1 At thirty-five minutes after nine A. M. he is rather cold than hot, and complains that he cannot get himfelf warmed; pulfe 133, ex- ceedingly fmall and weak. The circulation was flopped in both thighs, and in the left arm, Forty-