Railway surgery : a handbook on the management of injuries / by Clinton B. Herrick ; profusely illustrated by numerous original engravings.

Herrick, Clinton B. (Clinton Bradford), 1859-1915

Date:: 1899

Credit: Railway surgery : a handbook on the management of injuries / by Clinton B. Herrick ; profusely illustrated by numerous original engravings. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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$Examination, color blindness, 248, 251 blanks for, 243, 255 employees', 242 of hearing, 253 of injured, 234 of sight, 247 Expert testimony, 239 Extremities, crushes of, 145 treatment of, 149, 151 Face, wounds of the, 80 Fast-train injuries, 26 Femur, fracture of, 136 Fingers, injuries to the, 154 First-aid treatment, 157 Forces producing wounds, 18 Formaldehyde sterilizer, 50 disinfection by, 256 Fracture, 112 clavicle, 107 Colles', 134 compound, 115 conservatism in, 122 elbow-joint, T29 femur, 136 forearm, 132 humerus, 127 maxilla, inferior, 105 non-union in, 125 patella, 138 pelvis, 103 Pott's, 142 radius, 132 ribs, 101 skull, 82 diagnosis, 88 treatment, gt tibia, 139 ulna, 132 vertebra, 97 Gangrene of stump, case of, 27 Gauze, preparation of, 43 Growth of steam-roads, 3 Hand, contusions of the, 165 injuries of the, 154 Hearing, examination of the, 253 Hernia cerebri, 94 Hip-joint, amputation of, 188 dislocation of, 67 History of railway injuries, 23 of railwaj' surgery, 3 Hospital car, 15 railway, 4 Humerus, fracture of, 127 Injuries, appearances of, 25, 29, 146 bumper, 25 character of, 9 examination of, 234 fast-train, 26 history of, 23 interna], 192 treatment of, 196 localities of, 6 number of, 5 of bladder, 205 of fingers, 154 of hand, 154 of intestines. 200 of kidneys, 204 of liver, 199 of lungs, 198 of spinal cord, 208 of spleen, 202 of stomach, 200 of thumb, 162 of urethra, 206 of urinary tract, 203 slow-train, 25 transportation in, 39, 150 Instruments for emergencies, 47 Intestinal injuries, 200 Introduction, 1 Jurisprudence in railway surgery, 223 Kidney, injury to the, 204 Killed, number of men in year, 5$