Case of traumatic spreading gangrene, after severe compound fracture of the leg, for which amputation beneath the trochanter was performed, and the arteries secured by four acupressure needles : the femoral artery, at its giving off the profunda branch, was relieved from pressure at the forty-ninth hour after the operation, with recovery, and remarks / by P.D. Handyside.

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Credit: Case of traumatic spreading gangrene, after severe compound fracture of the leg, for which amputation beneath the trochanter was performed, and the arteries secured by four acupressure needles : the femoral artery, at its giving off the profunda branch, was relieved from pressure at the forty-ninth hour after the operation, with recovery, and remarks / by P.D. Handyside. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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