I have many times employed, without other help,
digital compression of the femoral, the brachial, or
the subclavian, in phlegmons, articular inflamma- I
tions, &c., and I found it so efficacious, that I mada]
it the ordinary method of treatment, in every emer« J
geney in my clmique in which it was practicable.
The cause of the salutary effects which mui
follow dimiuished supply, or retarded impetus, otM
blood to an inflamed part, is too manifest to needl
explanation. Obviously the surgeon can only lookS
forward to reasonable advantages from that plan ofl
treatment : but it is certain that these advantages*
will be very great. Compression will cure every*



■ Giornftle Veaeto di Scienze MeUiohe, Vol. x. Serie ii.
