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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    and extracted ; but when it is sunk deep, and out of the reach of the finger or a simple bou- gie, which in such cases should be used in place of a probe, it must appear evident up- on the least reflection, that thrusting first, a long probe in quest of the bullet, and then as was formerly the practice a longer pair of forceps; either with or without teeth, into a wound of that kind, must contuse, irritate and inflame the parts considerably, and con- sequently increase the mischief without any adequate benefit;—and if they should at the same time lay hold of an artery, nerve or ten- don with the ball, which may readily happen, the consequence would be shocking. When the wounded person has not suffer- ed any great loss of blood, and this is most frequently the case, it will be adviseable to open a vein immediately, (unless the patient has been previously in a state of considerable exhaustion and has an evident deficiency of blood,) and to take away from sixteen t©