Michigan medical news . er, by every one. Hardly a week passes that some unfortunate isnot brought to my oflice, who has been badly in-jured in some way, he has been bleeding, perhaps,the distance of several blocks, and arrives almostfaint. In the most of such cases they have some-thing tied around their wounds, but hardly ever inany manner so as to be equal to stop the exceptional cases you find a tourniquet or theSpanish windlass applied. This, when applied by asurgeon, may answ^er very well, but when appliedby a non-professional person it is invariably screwedup so tight that th
Michigan medical news . er, by every one. Hardly a week passes that some unfortunate isnot brought to my oflice, who has been badly in-jured in some way, he has been bleeding, perhaps,the distance of several blocks, and arrives almostfaint. In the most of such cases they have some-thing tied around their wounds, but hardly ever inany manner so as to be equal to stop the exceptional cases you find a tourniquet or theSpanish windlass applied. This, when applied by asurgeon, may answ^er very well, but when appliedby a non-professional person it is invariably screwedup so tight that the pain produced thereby is so greatand intolerable that the patient prefers rather tobleed to ,death. This is a great objection. Therefore I will call attention to the method offorcible flexion; and though extreme flexion has been practiced by surgeons in isolated cases, still to , of Dorpat, is due the credit of first havingsystematized the following method: BLEEDING FROM THE UPPER ARM. (ART: BRACH- lALIS.). FIG. 1. Bring the elbows of the patient as near as possibletogether upon the back, and fasten them with abandage. From this point let a doppelt bandagepass down to and over the perineum; separate thebandages again in front, let one end run over theleft, the other over the right groin back again to theelbows: see Fig. 1. The illustration will explain at a glance. BLEEDING FROM THE ARTERIES IN THE UPPERTHIRD OF THE ARM.
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