Notes on the progress of acupressure / by Sir J.Y. Simpson.

Date:
1867
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Credit: Notes on the progress of acupressure / by Sir J.Y. Simpson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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

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    Dr. Keith’s letter. Modes of Acu- pressure. • . • “ Acupressure,” writes Dr. Keith, “ here is triumphant—nothing else being dreamt of—and, I may say, in daily use. Within the last fourteen days I have employed it in the following opera- tions In an amputation of the forearm acupres- sure by first mode at the elbow commanded the humeral before bifurcation ; and the wound healed by first intention. I removed a large recurrent fibroid tumour for the third time in ten years. Deep dissection brought me in contact with the external carotid artery. And what of that ? It was looped by the sixth mode in three seconds; and the case has gone on to a wish, the wound filling up with healthy granulations, as all the in- tegument, being adherent and discoloured, was in- tentionally removed; the mass was like one’s fist. On Wednesday last I amputated a thigh. Three vessels by your fourth mode, and three by the sixth mode, were secured. On Monday of this week I amputated two thighs. In one four vessels re- quired acupressure; in the other, six. The fourth and sixth modes * were used in about equal pro- * These numerical references apply to excellent descrip- tions and plates of the different methods of performing acupressure given in the treatise of Drs. Pirrie and Keith. In their practice they do not notice one method which I have often employed to close minor vessels, and which I have seen my friend Dr. Heron Watson, Surgeon to the Edinburgh