An essay on the methods of suppressing hæmorrhages from divided arteries / By Thomas Kirkland, surgeon.

  • Thomas Kirkland
Date:
1763
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Credit: An essay on the methods of suppressing hæmorrhages from divided arteries / By Thomas Kirkland, surgeon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    up to the neareft lateral branches, as the re- fiftance towards the ligature abated from the blood paffing through thofe veffels.—And it appeared to me felf-evident that nature always took this ftep to fupprefs the haemorrhage from divided arteries, when I reflected that the fame circumftance conftantly happens, when the umbilical veffels are divided at the birth of the foetus. However, as I did not look for the lateral branches in the experiments mentioned, I cut off another horfe’s tail near his body, and fup- preffed the haemorrhage by preffing a few mi¬ nutes with my fingers ; and by a careful dif- fedlion the next day after he was killed, I found that the conclufion I had drawn was (in this fubjedl at leaf!) perfedtly right. Is it not owing to this caufe that an he¬ morrhage does not follow thofe mortifications, where the greatefl part of the limb is de- itroyed and feparates? For if the great veffels were clofed no farther than where the morti¬ fication ends, a flux of blood muff of courfe entiie upon the coming away of the dead 4 parts.
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