A treatise on gun-shot wounds : which obtained the premium given by the Royal College of Surgeons in London for the year 1803 / by Thomas Chevalier.

  • Chevalier, Thomas, 1767-1824.
Date:
1804
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A treatise on gun-shot wounds : which obtained the premium given by the Royal College of Surgeons in London for the year 1803 / by Thomas Chevalier. 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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    ed, and on the TOth ampiitation Was re- solved on; but as he fainted away on moving him for that purpose, tl^e opera- tion was abandoned, and in a few daj^s he died. On examinins; the limb after death, I was astonished to find how very confined the real organic mischief iiad been, scarcely extending in any part be- yond the hgament of the joint. I found the ball lodo-ed in the internal Condvle of the Femur ; but so that it might have been discovered and extracted, had the opening in the joint been made large enough for a free examination ; though by repeated search before I could not dis- coYer it. I now think the sj^mptoms in this case would have justified a bold in- cision; Vthich must have done much less harm to the joint than the ravages of the inflammation excited by the ball, and would have afforded the patient a very probable chance of recovery.—If a joint be already opened by the shot, enlarg- ing the opening it has made by the knife_, and thus giving room for a perfect exa-