A treatise on the diseases and management of sheep; with introductory remarks on their anatomical structure; and an appendix containing documents exhibiting the value of the Merino breed. Of sheep, and their progress in Scotland / by Sir George Steuart Mackenzie, bart.

  • Mackenzie, George Steuart, 1780-1848.
Date:
1809
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A treatise on the diseases and management of sheep; with introductory remarks on their anatomical structure; and an appendix containing documents exhibiting the value of the Merino breed. Of sheep, and their progress in Scotland / by Sir George Steuart Mackenzie, bart. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fufion of blood. If the effufion of blood be great, and if from its florid colour and flarting, it appears to proceed from an artery, it mufl be quickly flop- ped. If there are no means of applying preflure in tne courfe of the wounded artery, between the wound and the heart, the fore finger ought to be infroduced into the wound, and when the jet of blood is felt, it may thus be flopped until the wound be made^ large enough to admit of the artery being tiea. An inflrument called a tenaculum^ which is nothing more than a fliarp pointed hook,, is the mofl convenient for fecuring an artery. A double thread being waxed, and an open knot made upon it, it is put over the inflrument. The artery is then laid hold of by the point of the tenaculum, and drawn out a little, the knot is flipped over it, and firmly drawn, and the ends of the thread are al- lowed to hang out of the wound. Every bleeding' veffel may be fecured in the fame manner; and this mode of flopping the eflufion of blood is always to^ be preferred, as a cure is thus much more quickly and fafely carried on than when fponge, or puff- ball, or rags, are fluffed into a wound; or when any aflringents are applied. Such things prevent the cure being effected by adhefion. When the bleeding is fo very profufe as to ren- . der immediate applications ineffedual, it may be \ buffered to proceed till the animal dies; or fome' ' more fpeedy termination may be put to its exiflence. ^ Bleeding i$ always moll plentiful when the veffels^