Instructions for the treatment of gunshot wounds : according to the latest improvements in that interesting branch of surgery.

Date:
1814
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Credit: Instructions for the treatment of gunshot wounds : according to the latest improvements in that interesting branch of surgery. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    mation; in consequence of which the gene- rality of such wounds must be allowed to suppurate. Gun-shot wounds from the circumstance of commonly having a part killed, in general, do not inflame so speedily as those from other accidents; this tardiness to inflame is in proportion to the quantity that the deadened parts bear to the extent of the wound: from this circumstance the inflammation is later coming on when the ball passes through a fleshy part with great velocity, as the internal part of the wound is more completely dead- ed in proportion to such velocity.—On the other hand, when the ball has fractured a bone, which fracture of the bone has done considerable mischief to the soft parts, inde- pendent of the ball, there will be nearly as ear- ly inflammation as in a compound fracture of the same bone from any other accident; be- cause the deadened part bears no proportion io the laceration, or wound in general.