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But it is more than probable, that in the 
times of thefe men, the ligature was fearcely ever emp 
This opinion feems to be comfirmed by the confideration of - 
the great number of topical aftringents, cauftics, and other 
me which the ancients have recommended for th 
on of hemorr 
5 be a doubt, 
_ that, if the old furgeons had been familiar with the method 
i i foon have extended the 
However, fo far were 
t, at a much later period, we find 
; o cut off an arm at the wrift, left the pa- 
— fhould perith from lofs of blood. 
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fpoken of it ; 
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_Anfpired by God in 
€d upon by the fire, fo s thick, 
‘which blocked up the opening in the veffel, and prevented 
‘the efeape of the blood. But, frequently, the efchar was 
‘thrown off too foon, and the i urred. 
$&F was now greater than at firft, mafmuch as there was 
“more difficulty in {topping the hemorrhage, than before the 
Spetcation of the cautery. Sometimes it happened alfo 
that the i t, in confequence of being teo hot, 
brought away with it the efchar which it had juft produced. 
At yt th 
¥ the fuppreffion of hemorrhage. In France, 
&mployment of - 
‘Ucular inftances, in which the ligature and compreflions are 
both impradticable ; but we entertain no doubt that the 
Practice will in the courfe of time be univerfally abandoned. 
the different theories which have 
eeding recurred. The dan- - 
e actual cautery is never ufed in this country and 
France, indeed, the 
it is yet deemed juftifiable in a few par- the 
Before we enter into a detail of the various means of {top- 
ping hemorrhage, i 
cefs, cannot be confidered as good furgery. 
been made out by Dr. Jones on this fubjeét, and we feel 
highly indebted to this gentleman for the advantages and 
affiitance which we have derived from his able criticifms, and 
perfpicuous explanations, ae. 
thou 
terrible means of cauftic and fi 
The celebrated French 
to check every hemorrhage with drugs, or the infecure, yet 
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divided artery is. ftopped by the formation of a 
blood, (caillot de fang,) which is fituated partly qwithin, and 
without the veffel. 
the internal portion by the blood contained juft within its 
divided extremity ; the former he called the couvercle, the - 
latter the douchon. The clot, according to Petit, afterwards 
becomes adherent to the internal coat of the veffel, to its 
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s Dr. Jones remarks, it is ¢ ap that Morand alluded to 
es Wig | contraétion and retraction o arteries, and that he erred 
of DP fe ee partion — bare purfi otk beste: chiefly in his explanation of the way, in w fuch effects 
Nellels, by touching them with pledgets dipped in boiling oil are produced. — maa Spat: : anoniniont 
< ‘urpentine. Weare happy to add, that this method has fe which, es to ire 8, do not —_ 
Resa ‘Paawedsents Methodique, in the arteries of the:human . wever, though M 
ieee, tials ee : ree aa entertained very erroneous noti of the. ftruéture and 
ans Vou. XVII. eee ee ee action 
