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  1. ... the air, and in some instances to make compression, and to aid in giving fixity to other dressings. The Tent ... depends very much upon the part involved; gradual compression by the aid of adhesive plaster is often followed by excellent ...
  2. NLM Digital Collections - Homoeopathic domestic medicine 
    Publication: New-York : William Radde, 1850
    ... deeply for the convenient application of the ligature, compression, with the aid of ice or cold water, is the method ...
  3. ... Extrapleural thoracoplasties operations are effective in producing permanent compression to aid in obliteration of cavities, particularly in tuberculosis and ...
  4. NLM Digital Collections - New elements of operative surgery (Volume 1) 
    Publication: New York : Samuel S. & W. Wood, 1856
    ... The alternate raising and depressing of the thorax, (compression saccadee,) by the aid of which, Nysten thought to expel the air ... too much inconvenience, we should call in the aid of compression; if it were actually necessary to act upon ...
  5. NLM Digital Collections - Principles of X-ray and radium dosage 
    Publication: Chicago : Albert Bachem, [1923]
    ... of 6 or 7 fields, and with the aid of compression, a Seitz and Wintz carcinoma dose could be ...
  6. NLM Digital Collections - Outlines of first aid, U.S. Army 
    Publication: Washington : Government Printing Office, 1899
    ... body. Heart and principal ARTERIES AND POINTS FOR COMPRESSION. OUTLINES OF FIRST AID. 5 takes place and you have to apply ... OUTLINES OF FIRST AID. IMPROVISED TOURNIQUET. Fig. 7.—Compression of left femoral. OUTLINES OF FIRST AID. 11 ORDINARY TOURNIQUETS. Fig. 8.—Field tourniquet, right ...
  7. ... to disappear spontaneously, it cannot be denied that compression*is calculated powerfully to aid the salutary efforts of nature. In such cases ... elbow. A. The cure spontaneously, or with the aid of compression, oi aneurisms at the bend of the arm, ...
  8. ... The alternate raising and depressing of the thorax, (compression saccadee,) by the aid of which, Nysten thought to expel the air ... too much inconvenience, we should call in the aid of compression; if it M'ere actually ne- cessary to ...
  9. NLM Digital Collections - The surgery of the head and neck 
    Publication: [San Francisco] : Published by the author, c1896
    ... manual compression over the heart, and, while this compression is being done, an aid also compresses the chest. The pressure over the ... torsion or circumscription, the surgeon should direct an aid to maintain compression over the vein on the cardiac side of ...
  10. ... full voice appeared, and she spoke without the aid of compression. There was a slight tendency, for a time, ... made, both in expiration and inspiration, with the aid of compression of the thyroid, when nothing above a whisper ...
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