The international encyclopaedia of surgery; a systematic treatise on the theory and practice of surgery . fiirtcs compressor.—Groin jiortion. Cartes compressor.—Thigh portion. provided with a binding screw. At the end of the horizontal arm is the com-pressing rod and screw, the rod running through a ball-joint and double socketconnected together by broad flat India-rubber rings, givino; a certain play andresilience to the screw. The socket in which theupright arm turns, and that POPLITEAL ANEURISM. 163 ill -wliicli the horizontal works, give means of moving the pad into any place;the ball and
The international encyclopaedia of surgery; a systematic treatise on the theory and practice of surgery . fiirtcs compressor.—Groin jiortion. Cartes compressor.—Thigh portion. provided with a binding screw. At the end of the horizontal arm is the com-pressing rod and screw, the rod running through a ball-joint and double socketconnected together by broad flat India-rubber rings, givino; a certain play andresilience to the screw. The socket in which theupright arm turns, and that POPLITEAL ANEURISM. 163 ill -wliicli the horizontal works, give means of moving the pad into any place;the ball and socket joint at the end of the horizontal arm enables the tourni-quet screw to take any direction. By this means the femoral artery can becompressed fairly against the body of the pubis in such a direction as shallgive the most effect to the least mechanical effort, and, therefore, with the leastpressure on the skin. The other part of the instrument is a stirrup-shaped tourniquet, with hingeand clamp at the sides. The arrangement of the tourniquet screw is the sameas in the upper or groin porti
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