New elements of operative surgery . la. § I.—Bleeding at the Arm. Physicians who had imagined that blood-lettingmight be simply evacuant or depletive when applied in-differently to this or that vein, derivative, on the contra-ry, when performed betVk^een the diseased organ andthe heart, and revulsive when as far as possible fromthe region to be relieved, ascribed a great import-ance to the veins upon which the operation should bepractised; at that time their choice lay betweenbleeding at the arm, neck, or foot. Now, however,since those distinctions of the schools have lostall their value, bloo
New elements of operative surgery . la. § I.—Bleeding at the Arm. Physicians who had imagined that blood-lettingmight be simply evacuant or depletive when applied in-differently to this or that vein, derivative, on the contra-ry, when performed betVk^een the diseased organ andthe heart, and revulsive when as far as possible fromthe region to be relieved, ascribed a great import-ance to the veins upon which the operation should bepractised; at that time their choice lay betweenbleeding at the arm, neck, or foot. Now, however,since those distinctions of the schools have lostall their value, blood-letting by the arm is almostthe only kind employed. Even on the suppositionthat we have gone too far in this matter, and thatphlebotomy in other regions has relapsed into un-merited oblivion, it is nevertheless always true, thatthe theoretic reasons which governed the practice ofthe ancient physicians are evidently too futile to re-quire to be discussed at the present day. A. Veins at the Fold of the Arm—(Fig. 144.) In the arm w
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