Word: tourniqueted
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Tightly wound around the patient's head was a three-layer bandage tourniquet such as Inca and pre-Inca surgeons used. With bronze chisel and copper hammer...
...just before the car cleared the edge, Meuler was flung out. He was horribly hurt-one leg, a hip and his back were broken, his face was torn and his scalp split-but he rose, fell, rose again. Thomson scrambled downhill toward him and put a tourniquet on his bleeding leg. He took off his pants, covered Meuler with them, and scrambled up to flag a passing motorist...
Thus Creel amputated his forearm. Holding the arm against his ribs and squeezing it with his right hand to stanch the bleeding, he walked a mile to the nearest house, where he got a towel for a crude tourniquet. Two hours after the accident, he got to a hospital in Hattiesburg. Professionals tidied up his rough & ready surgery, and Creel was soon resting easily. Then he expressed his chief fear: that the amputation might make it harder for him to support his wife and baby...
...then the enemy charged out of the dike shadows, throwing grenades. One exploded near Reddick, smashed his right knee. "I'm hit!" he shouted. The man next to him said, "Me too," but added quickly: "It was just my goddam canteen." Later a lieutenant reached Reddick, applied a tourniquet and dressing...
...bringing suit for separate maintenance, Richard Michalak received, among more than 500 sure cures for snoring, suggestions that he 1) eat three small onions on retiring, 2) have his tonsils out, 3) drink goat's milk with all meals, 4) get some blood transfusions, 5) wrap a rubber tourniquet around his neck...