With a stick and a handkerchief, he twisted on a tourniquet, muttering condolence: "Pain much?

The woman who had spoken to him found and fetched it from no great distance; and its contents enabled Duchemin to improvise a tourniquet, and when the flow of blood was checked, a bandage.

A tight tourniquet can be tied a little above the wound, such that one finger should be able to pass under the tourniquet.

A tight tourniquet can be tied a little above the wound, such that one finger should be able to pass under the tourniquet.

The tourniquet should be left in place until antivenom is given.

Stopper N. stopper, stopple; plug, cork, bung, spike, spill, stopcock, tap; rammer^; ram, ramrod; piston; stop-gap; wadding, stuffing, padding, stopping, dossil^, pledget^, tompion^, tourniquet. cover &c 223; valve, vent peg, spigot, slide valve.

"Which of you fellows made that tourniquet with the fork?"

Down through that mass of fugitives pushed a London motor-bus ambulance with several wounded British soldiers, one of them sitting upright, supporting with his right hand a left arm, the biceps, bound in a blood-soaked tourniquet, half torn away.

He had lost a great deal of blood, and he was still bleeding from a large artery, in spite of the efforts of a number of soldiers round who were applying tourniquets without much success.

The ordinary tourniquet is probably the most inefficient instrument that the mind of man could deviseat least, for dealing with wounds of the thigh out in the field.

I would suggest the elimination of all tourniquets, and the substitution of the humble pocket-handkerchief.

In this case the author's practice has been, after casting the animal, to apply a tourniquet to the limb and proceed to excision.

Following this, and before removing the tourniquet, the wound should be filled with pledgets of carbolized tow, and the whole tightly secured by a stout and broad linen bandage of not less than 6 yards in length.

'After casting and anæsthetizing, a strong rubber tourniquet was placed above the knee and the operation commenced.

'There was little if any hæmorrhage until release of the tourniquet, when the whole broad surface became deluged with blood, three or four small arteries spurting and veins flowing in all directions, so much so that I was glad to reafix the clasp, and with the firing-iron seal up the vessels, searing gently all over the surface.

An Esmarch rubber bandage is next run up the limb, and the tourniquet applied, thus rendering the operation a nearly bloodless one.

Once the bandages are adjusted, the hobbles may be removed, and the tourniquet loosened.

Directly the tourniquet is removed there is a steady oozing of blood through the bandages, no matter how many we have put on.

The water expelled by the elbowed pipes reacted through pressure, as in the hydraulic tourniquet of cabinets of physics, and effected the propulsion of the vessel.

CURIOSITÉ SATISFAITE "Je n'ai jamais pu comprendre, disait un provincial visitant une exposition, comment ces tourniquets fonctionnent.

TOURNIQUET, m., croix mobile posée horizontalement sur un pivot à l'entrée d'un spectacle payant, pour ne laisser passer qu'une

Here the former made the usual bloody-looking if not bloody-minded preparations for applying tourniquets and for amputating, all unheeded, however, by his two companions, both of whom were lost to the scene around them in devout prayer.

The boat had tourniquets and other similar appliances in it, and he directed some of the French to use them on those that wanted them most.

She says: "The method of arresting bleeding from an artery is so easy that a child may learn it; yet thousands of lives have been lost through ignorance, the life-blood ebbing away in the presence of sorrowing spectators, perfectly helpless, because none among them had been taught one of the first rudiments of instruction of an ambulance pupil,the application of an extemporized tourniquet.

Throughout the arduous flexuosities of the Mendelssohn E-minor concerto, singing, winding from tonal to tonal climax, and out of the slow movement, which is like a tourniquet twisting the heart into the spirited allegro molto vivace, it was as if beneath Leon Kantor's fingers the strings were living vein-cords, youth, vitality, and the very foam of exuberance racing through them.