Heart and Blood 77 



heart always pulsates more languidly, the blood does 

 not flow freely, but distils by drops only. The reason 

 is, that with the somewhat greater than usual resistance 

 offered to the transit of the blood by the bandage, 

 coupled with the weaker action of the heart, and its 

 diminished impelling power, the stream cannot make 

 its way under the fillet ; and farther, owing to the weak 

 and languishing state of the heart, the blood is not 

 transferred in such quantity as wont from the veins 

 to the arteries through the sinuses of that organ. So 

 also, and for the same reasons, are the menstrual fluxes 

 of women, and indeed hemorrhagies of every kind, 

 controlled. And now, a contrary state of things occur- 

 ring, the patient getting rid of his fear and recovering 

 his courage, the pulsific power is increased, the arteries 

 begin again to beat with greater force, and to drive 

 the blood even into the part that is bound ; so that 

 the blood now springs from the puncture in the vein, 

 and flows in a continuous stream. 



