A lecture, containing plain descriptions of the situation of the large blood-vessels, of the extremities ; the instrument called tourniquet; and the methods of making effectual pressure on the arteries...Delivered to the scholars of the Maritime school, at Chelsea... / by William Blizard.

  • Blizard, William, Sir, 1743-1835.
Date:
1786
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Credit: A lecture, containing plain descriptions of the situation of the large blood-vessels, of the extremities ; the instrument called tourniquet; and the methods of making effectual pressure on the arteries...Delivered to the scholars of the Maritime school, at Chelsea... / by William Blizard. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. THE Introduction, prefixed to thefe pages when firft printed for the ufe of the fcholars of the Maritime School, explains their original de- fign. The publifhing them has been frequently urged by men of good fenfe and benevolence. A. paflage^ in Captain Drink water’s curious account of the fiege of Gibraltar, expreffes ftrongly the probable utili¬ ty, and therefore propriety, of fuch a publication. ——* “ September, 1781. The 30th, a foldier of the y2d iC loft his legs by a (hot from Fort Barbara. He bore « amputation with prodigious firmnefs; but died, foon u after, through the lofs of blood previoufly to his be- « ing brought to the hofpital. This fad: being repro¬ ve fented to the governor, the fergeants of the different cc regiments were ordered to attend the hofpital, to be « taught by the furgeons how to apply the tourni- quet y which was afterwards productive of very be- a neficial