Report of observations made in the British military hospitals in Belgium after the battle of Waterloo, with some remarks upon amputation / by John Thomson.

Date:
1816
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Credit: Report of observations made in the British military hospitals in Belgium after the battle of Waterloo, with some remarks upon amputation / by John Thomson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    ]26 ted by a strict adherence to the antiphlogis- tic regimen. In one case, a cannon-ball had struck the outer and fore part of the left thigh, and depri- ved the muscles of their covering. A protru- sion took place from the wound, which occu- pied nearly the whole anterior part of the thigh from the groin to the knee. The surface of the protruded parts was irregular and knobby. Before we left Brussels, a considerable advance towards a cure had been made in this case by the limb being placed on the heel, and by the use of pressure with bandages. Numerous examples were to be seen of' cases in which musket-balls had penetrated the thigh in all directions. Many of these were simple wounds, and, unless in particular consti- tutions, healed very readily. In some instances, however, they were attended with a high de- gree of erythematie inflammation, which occa- sioned great swelling of the thigh, leg, and foot. This inflammation terminated not infre- quently in abscess. Various instances had occurred in which secondary hemorrhage had taken place from wounds in the course of the large vessels of