The Principles and Practice of Surgery

Acupressure was merely mentioned in his last edition. He wrote then : " Under the name of acupressure Dr Simpson has proposed a new plan of arresting haemorrhage in surgical wounds and operations, by the employment of metallic pins or needles, instead of ligatures. ... I shall take ail early opportunity of making trial of this method, but cannot stop the press to give the result." In the present edition the subject is fully noticed, and, as all were prepared to expect, spoken of with confidence as "the best means yet devised for the arresting of surgical haemorrhage." But there is one point in regard to which we remain,