A system of surgery . it was•liable to one great inconvenience from<:he very circumftance which by the inven-tor was confidered as an inftrument of Mr Petit being madeto a6l upon the principal arteries only, theSmaller veflels communicating with thefe,by not being properly comprefled, dif-charge blood freely from the inftant theyare cut; and as this proves a very trouble-fome circumftance in the courfe of operastions, different improvements have of latebeen made upon it. The pattern in PlateHI. is the refalt of all thefe. By means of this inftrument in its nowimproved ftate
A system of surgery . it was•liable to one great inconvenience from<:he very circumftance which by the inven-tor was confidered as an inftrument of Mr Petit being madeto a6l upon the principal arteries only, theSmaller veflels communicating with thefe,by not being properly comprefled, dif-charge blood freely from the inftant theyare cut; and as this proves a very trouble-fome circumftance in the courfe of operastions, different improvements have of latebeen made upon it. The pattern in PlateHI. is the refalt of all thefe. By means of this inftrument in its nowimproved ftate, the blood in any limb isvery eafilyand elfeduallycommanded; andas it grafps the whole member equally, allthe collateral brajiches as well as the prin-cipal arteries are equally compreffed by has this material advantage, too, overevery other inftrument of this kind, that,when properly applied, a fingle turn, or€ven half a turn of the fcrew, is fu€iciemci^v producing either a flow of blood, or for t^^-^.
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