Acupressure : an excellent method of arresting surgical hæmorrhage and of accelerating the healing of wounds / by William Pirrie and William Keith.

  • Pirrie, William, 1807-1882.
Date:
1867
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    PREFACE. Having been urged to reprint for separate publication my papers on Acupressure which appeared in the ''•Medical Times of July, 1865, I now do so in a greatly enlarged, and, I trust, more useful form. Many additional cases are given, some of which are of considerable interest, and seem to me to show that Acupressure, after certain injuries and operations, is an admirable method of arresting haemorrhage and of accelerating the healing of wounds. I have endeavoured to give a brief history of the origin and progress of Acupressure—to enumerate and represent the instruments employed in the pro- ceeding—to describe and delineate the seven methods of Acupressure presently in use—to enumerate the five modes of healing open incised wounds, that it