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The bandage I use resembles Esmarch’s. I, however, call it the strong elastic bandage, for I used it continually very many years before the discovery which has immortalized an already illustrious name. I did this without the slightest notion that by such a bandage the deep arterial circulation of a limb could be entirely controlled, indeed with a very decided theoretical conviction that it could not, and therefore have no claim whatever to Esmarch’s discovery. Many years ago I twice re commended the elastic bandage to surgeons about to amputate legs, as a substitute for the common roller bandage often used to expel blood from a limb before and so save it for the patient after amputation, but my suggestion was disregarded. That is the nearest I ever came to making Esmarch’s great discovery.