Word: tourniquet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Apply a tourniquet above the knee or elbow whenever the bite is located below those levels. Release it every ten minutes to prevent gangrene...
...poison through the body. When the effect wears off it becomes a depressant, lowering the victim's resistance, hindering him from using all his natural forces to fight the poison. Exactly the opposite results are imperative. The poison must be prevented from circulating: this is accomplished by a tourniquet above the bite, in first aid; the natural resistance must be fostered by rest and anti-ophidic serum...
...wooden leg was an asset but the good leg was a liability. People looked coldly at the liability, passed by. One Malcolm Norris, 21, beggar, sat in a San Francisco street last week, pondered, arose, hobbled to a railroad track. He bound a rude tourniquet above his knee, thrust out the liability to convert it into an asset, as a train snorted by. The conversion failed; he died three hours later...