seignioroni

Updated: May 6, 2025

But I have been told, young gentlemen, that a certain Seignior Seignioroni, a surgeon of Seville, has recently invented an admirable substitute for the clumsy, old-fashioned tourniquet. As I understand it, it is something like a pair of calipers, working with a small Archimedes screw a very clever invention, according to all accounts.

Herman Melville - White Jacket: or, the World on a Man-of-War