Ready remedies to be used in cases of poisoning and other accidents, where medical aid is not immediately available / by James Johnson.

  • Johnson, James, 1777-1845.
Date:
1846
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Ready remedies to be used in cases of poisoning and other accidents, where medical aid is not immediately available / by James Johnson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    In figure 1, the position of the artery in the upper arm is represented; it will be seen that it lies to the inner or body side of the fleshy substance, which extends from the top of the shoulder, inside the arm to the elbow joint. Fig. 1. Fig. 2. In figure 2, which represents the upper part of the thigh, it will be observed commencing its course midway between the point of the hip and the inner edge of the limb; and in both cases the vessels are sufficiently near the surface to admit of being easily compressed. It is true that a pressure applied equally round the limb would, if sufficiently powerful, arrest the flow of blood from an artery; but a knowledge of the position of the vessel enables us, by a pad, to direct our pressure to that part, without constricting the remainder of the circumference of the limb, to Ihe same extent.