A lecture, containing plain descriptions of the situation of the large blood-vessels, of the extremities ; the instrument called tourniquet; and the methods of making effectual pressure on the arteries...Delivered to the scholars of the Maritime school, at Chelsea... / by William Blizard.

  • Blizard, William, Sir, 1743-1835.
Date:
1786
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Credit: A lecture, containing plain descriptions of the situation of the large blood-vessels, of the extremities ; the instrument called tourniquet; and the methods of making effectual pressure on the arteries...Delivered to the scholars of the Maritime school, at Chelsea... / by William Blizard. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fhould not be expofed to danger in the ordinary and fo* cial offices of life. Science and humanity allow no dillindlion of country, but, with equal juftice, exprefs the gratitude of mankind to the memory of the authors of ufeful in¬ ventions and difcoveries. - The inftrument called tourniquet, we are informed, was the invention of a French furgeon, named Morell, at the liege of Be- sANqoN. It confifts of four parts: viz. i. a yard and half of flrong worfted, or other kind of band, an inch broad; 2. f a pad of leather, tightly fluffed with wool or horfe-hair, two or three inches long, and of an inch breadth and thicknefs, having a loop on one fide for the band to Hide through 5 * 3. g, a piece of ffrong leather, three inches long and two broad, having two apertures, an inch afunder, for palling the band, or li¬ gature ; 4. a piece of fmooth, round, and ftrong, wood, about four inches in length, D Defcriptions fc It has been fuggefted, that, for the ufe of perfons who may not retain an accurate remembrance of the fituation of the veffels, it were better for this pad to be made as large again a3 here defcribed.