A concise relation of the effects of an extraordinary styptic, lately discovered : in a series of letters from several gentlemen of the Faculty to Barth. Ruspini.

  • Ruspini Bartholomew, 1728-1813.
Date:
1785
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Credit: A concise relation of the effects of an extraordinary styptic, lately discovered : in a series of letters from several gentlemen of the Faculty to Barth. Ruspini. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1 ( 42 ) and carefully to foften the tourniquet. The liaemorrhage appeared evidently to be re- ftrained, though not entirely flopped j for the blood, which feemed to coUedt from various fmall vefTels of the ftump, only fell dowii^in drops, and thofe not very frequent, from the rrioft depending part. When the tourniquet was quite loofe, thefe drops for a time did not fall fafter or thicker, but feemed indeed to be lefs frequent, fo that we had fome expectation of being able to truft entirely to the application. But after waiting fome time, as this dropping flill remained, and the man had had a previous mortification in the limb, and was there- fore unable to bear even a fmall accidental lofs of blood, fo well as a patient under other circumflances might have done, I thought it prudent not to rifque the mat- ter, but removed the doffils, and fo tied up the vefTels. Upon taking away the doffils, it was a circumflance proper to be remarked, that