blood-stoppern.

1754 Gentleman's Mag. Dec. 634/2 (heading) An attempt to account for the growth of Agaric, and how it comes to be a Blood Stopper, tho' not a Styptic.

1884 Illustr. Sci. Monthly July 33/2 It [sc. a spider's web] is a first-rate blood stopper, if applied immediately to a cut finger.

1903 Railway Surgeon Sept. 113/2 Another gentleman came rushing in with a wonderful blood-stopper, which he asked me to recommend to my superiors.

1975 Black Belt Feb. 49/1 Applying a tourniquet in such a way that you won't lose your leg to gangrene, the great danger in the use of this last-resort blood-stopper.

1997 New Straits Times (Malaysia) (Nexis) 28 July 24 The combination of rubber, steel and glass make them excellent materials in the production of vital medical paraphernalia like surgical tubing, blood stoppers, [etc.].

2009 D. Rice Pugs vi. 107 If the nail injury is..oozing blood, cauterize..with a commercial blood-stopper.

1832 Light from West Apr. 86 Surely it would be a far simpler and cheaper plan, to keep an old woman or two as a blood stopper than all the ligatures.

1841 Baltimore Phœnix & Budget May 76/2 One fortune-teller,..one blood-stopper, one pow-wower, and one witch.

1954 Midwest Folklore 4 213 Almost every community had a ‘blood stopper’ or two in which the people had great confidence.

1981 Med. Anthropol. Newslet. 13 9/2 Blood-stoppers..who are said to have the ability to stop the bleeding from a wound by magical spells or simple willpower.

2003 M. Bennett Oatmeal & Catech. (rev. ed.) iv. 112 Even in the closing decade of the twentieth century, faith in the blood-stopper seemed to be a perfectly normal part of the local belief system.