ACUPRESSURE

n. A?*k-u?-pre’s’shur. Lat., a cup res sur a, acupre io (from acus, a needle, and premere, to pre ). Fr., acu: re ure, acupre ion. Ger., Acupre ur, Acuclausur, Nadeldruck, Nadeläruckung. Ît.… a cup res sur a, agopre ura, a go pre i one [Rizzoli]. Sp., acupresura. Mrresi r. A proce of arresting hæmorrhage from divided blood-ve els, or impeding the fiow of blood through ve els that are not divided, by means of pre ure with a needle pa ed into the ti ues; advocated in 1859 by Sir J. Y. Simpson as “a new hæmostatic proce founded on the Feinciple of the temporary metallic compre ion of arteries.” Similar procedures are said to have been Gnas ed before by Petit and Rizzoli. Sir J. Y. Simpson, ‘‘ Edinburgh Med. Jour.,” Jan., 1860, p. 645; G. Peters, “* N. Y. Med. Jo June, 1869, Pee L. Pre ber, “Gaz. hebdom. de m de chir.,” pany 8, 1870. p. 420; Hofmokl (A, 819).] _ Simpson’s first method “consists in pa ing a needle through the flaps or sides of the wound, so as cro over and compre the mouth of the bleeding artery or its tube, just in the same way as, in fastening a flower in the lapel of our coat, we cro oyer and compre the stalk of it with the pin which fixes it, and with this view