Acupressure

Simpson JY . Anaesthesia, or the Employment of Chloroform and Ether in Surgery, Midwifery, etc. Philadelphia: Lindsay and Blakiston, 1849.

Simpson JY . Acupressure, a New Method of Arresting Surgical Haemorrhage and of Accelerating the Healing of Wounds. 1st edn, Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1864.

Power H , and Sedwick L (eds), The New Sydenham Society's Lexicon of Medicine and the Allied Sciences. London: The New Sydenham Society 1881; I.

Simpson J . Acupressure; a New Method of Arresting Surgical Haemorrhage. Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1864.

Ibid.: p. 23.

Comrie J . History of Scottish Medicine. London: Baillière, Tindall & Cox, 1932: 596.

Two of Crompton's cases were reported in Acupressure; A New Method of Arresting Haemorrhage. The first, a phthisical youth, perished. Simpson blamed the failure on removal of the needle before the vessel had ceased pulsating. pp. 163–4.

West JFF . On acupressure. BMJ 1869; i: 563–4.

In this case, on the femoral artery for five hours.

Simpson J (op. cit. Ref. 4): p. 306.

Gamgee was Foreign Corresponding Member of the Society of Surgery in Paris at the time. The Lancet 1867; ii:670.