Acupressure : an excellent method of arresting surgical hæmorrhage and of accelerating the healing of wounds / by William Pirrie and William Keith.

  • Pirrie, William, 1807-1882.
Date:
1867
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    may be more clearly perceived in what circumstances, and for what modes of healing, Acupressure has advan- tages over the ligature—to report cases of a diversified character in which I have practised Acupressure—and, to state the appreciation I have formed of this method of arresting haemorrhage. I owe acknowledgments to my friend. Professor Sir James Y. Simpson, Baronet, for the use of one of the woodcuts illustrative of the First method of Acu- pressure. The whole of the other illustrations have been taken anew from nature by Mr. Macdonald of Aberdeen. To Mr. Bagg of London I am also in- debted, for the admirable manner in which he has made the drawings on wood. Notwithstanding the progress Acupressure abeady has made, it has not as yet met with that appreciation to which, in my opinion, it is justly entitled ; and my confident belief is that it would be adopted by many Surgeons, provided they had opportunities of seeing it successfully practised by others. As such opportuni- ties are not conveniently accessible to many, it seems desirable to publish full descriptions and accm-ate de- lineations of all the methods presently in use. This I