Castlevania II: Simon’s Quest (allthetropes.org) The second entry in the Castlevania series takes place seven years after the original, where Simon Belmont has been unable to recover from the injuries he suffered from his last battle with Dracula.
Of this we have abundant proof in the ordinary experience of surgeons, who, by binding the arm with a tie of moderate straitness above the part where they open the vein, cause the blood to flow more copiously than it would have done without any ligature; whereas quite the contrary would happen were they to bind it below; that is, between the hand and the opening, or were to make the ligature above the opening very tight.