A lecture on the situation of the large blood-vessels of the extremities; and the methods of making effectual pressure on the arteries / by William Blizard.

  • Blizard, William, Sir, 1743-1835.
Date:
1798
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Credit: A lecture on the situation of the large blood-vessels of the extremities; and the methods of making effectual pressure on the arteries / by William Blizard. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    knife ; in which cafe, it is gently preffed as a wedge, fo as to pafs the points of the edge into the fpaces between the fibres to be divi- ded, and no more ; the inflrument is then drawn in a dlre6lion parallel to the furface ; the tender fibres are thus broken ; and, by repeated applications and drawings of the knife, fucceffive layers of fibres are divided to the extent required. — The one attended with much violence of effedt, from the re- fiftance of the fibres, as that made with a jagged infirument, is termed a lacerated wound. But, when we confider the graduation of the fliarpefi: knife into the fpiked infiru- ment, and that, in wounding with each as a cutting Infirument, the fame procefs takes place, thefe terms alfo will appear relative, to the finenefs of the infirument, and the delicacy of the fubjedb divided. That which might be exprefied as a Jimple inc'ifed woundy in the fide of an elephant, would probably be a dreadfully-lacerated one in the human body.