Part 16
When you have opened a vein and abstracted blood, and although the
fillet be loosed the bleeding does not stop, the member, whether the
arm or leg, is to be put into the reverse position to that from which
the blood flows; so that the blood may flow backward, and it is to
be allowed to remain in this position for a greater or less space
of time. Then bind up the part while matters are so, no clots of blood
being allowed to remain in the opening. Then having applied a double
compress, and wetted it with wine, apply above it clean wool which
has been smeared with
[p. 344]oil. For, although the flow of blood be violent,
it will be stopped in this way. If a thrombus be formed in the opening,
it will inflame and suppurate. Venesection is to be practiced when
the person has dined more or less freely and drunk, and when somewhat
heated, and rather in hot weather than in cold.