Form of physical trauma sustained from the discharge of arms or munitions

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A compleat discourse of wounds : both in general and in particular: whereunto are added the severall fractures of the skull, with their variety of figures. As also a treatise of gunshot-wounds in general / collected and reduced into a new method by John Brown.

A treatise on the blood, inflammation, and gun-shot wounds / By the late John Hunter. To which is prefixed a short account of the author's life by his brother-in-law, Everard Home.

On gun-shot wounds of the extremities, requiring the different operations of amputation, with their after-treatment : establishing the advantages of amputation on the field of battle to the delay usually recommended ... / by G.J. Guthrie.

A young lover has been mistaken for a burglar and got shot with pellets. Lithograph.

A treatise, or reflections drawn from practice on gun-shot wounds ... / by Henry Francis Le Dran ... ; translated from the French original.

The surgery of the chest in relation to retained projectiles / [Sir Berkeley Moynihan].

Traumatic epilepsy after gunshot wounds of the head / by P.B. Ascroft.

The early treatment of war wounds / by Colonel H.M.W. Gray.

Die indirecten Läsionen des Auges bei Schussverletzungen der Orbitalgegend : nach Aufzeichnungen aus dem Russisch-Türkischen Kriege (1877-78) / von G. v. Oettingen.

Outlines of the lectures on surgery / delivered by Sir Astley Cooper, bart at St. Thomas's and Guy's Hospitals.

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Wounds, Gunshot

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The surgery of the chest in relation to retained projectiles / [Sir Berkeley Moynihan].

Traumatic epilepsy after gunshot wounds of the head / by P.B. Ascroft.

The early treatment of war wounds / by Colonel H.M.W. Gray.

Die indirecten Läsionen des Auges bei Schussverletzungen der Orbitalgegend : nach Aufzeichnungen aus dem Russisch-Türkischen Kriege (1877-78) / von G. v. Oettingen.

Outlines of the lectures on surgery / delivered by Sir Astley Cooper, bart at St. Thomas's and Guy's Hospitals.

Wounds, Gunshot

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Images referencing Wounds, Gunshot

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The surgery of the chest in relation to retained projectiles / [Sir Berkeley Moynihan].

Traumatic epilepsy after gunshot wounds of the head / by P.B. Ascroft.

The early treatment of war wounds / by Colonel H.M.W. Gray.

Die indirecten Läsionen des Auges bei Schussverletzungen der Orbitalgegend : nach Aufzeichnungen aus dem Russisch-Türkischen Kriege (1877-78) / von G. v. Oettingen.

Outlines of the lectures on surgery / delivered by Sir Astley Cooper, bart at St. Thomas's and Guy's Hospitals.

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