Arterial Hæmorrhage. Was It Known to the Ancients?

of limbs being torn off by machinery without arterial loss of blood occurring?a knowledge even now being taken advantage of, in the substitution of torsion for the ligature, although large arteries have to be dealt with. But in torn limbs it very often happens that the well-known arterial gush per saltum does take place; everything depending on the manner in which the vessel may be divided, or on the treatment the