A treatise on the process employed by nature in suppressing the hemorrhage from divided and punctured arteries ; and on the use of the ligature; concluding with observations on secondary hemorrhage, the whole deduced from an extensive series of experiments, and illustrated by fifteen plates / by J. F. D. Jones.

  • Jones, J. F. D. (John Frederick Drake), approximately 1780-1813.
Date:
1810
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Credit: A treatise on the process employed by nature in suppressing the hemorrhage from divided and punctured arteries ; and on the use of the ligature; concluding with observations on secondary hemorrhage, the whole deduced from an extensive series of experiments, and illustrated by fifteen plates / by J. F. D. Jones. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    “ hemorrhage from divided arteries.” Mr. Kirkland wished to determine the effects of temporary pressure on arteries, and therefore in his experiments he applied a tourniquet on the limb, a ligature on the arleiy, or his finger to the mouth of the artery. All these are ar- tificial means, taking off the force of the circulation from the extremity of the artery, and allowing it to undergo those changes proper to the new condition into which it is brought. One circumstance only being omitted, the means can no longer be natural; especially when it is that one most important circumstance of all, the source of our anxiety and alarm, namely, the im- petuous flowing of the blood through the wound of the artery. It is the hemorrhage itself which resists the contraction of the artery to a degree that would, in almost every instance, be attended with fatal con- sequences (the artery being supposed large enough to admit of such consequences) ; but for a coagulum, whose formation, situation, and use, will soon engage our attention. Mr. White draws his conclusions from the con- dition of a tied artery, in which I am ready to admit that the formation of a coagulum of blood is contin- gent; and, except under particular circumstances, of no use ; and employs them to explain the condition of a divided artenj left to nature, in which I shall main- tain that a coagulum is, in general, essential to the preservation of the animal. In order then that we may come at the natural means by which hemorrhage is stopped, the divided artery must be left to itself, the size of the external wound being so regulated that the blood does not flow