A treatise on gunshot wounds / by Thomas Chevalier.

  • Thomas Chevalier
Date:
1806
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Credit: A treatise on gunshot wounds / by Thomas Chevalier. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    however the.action of the parts is lan- guid, local stimulants, such as the di- gestive ointments, &c. must be applied. Pus, moreover, though the secretion natural to a sore, is yet an unnatural dis- charge ; taking place in no instance with- out a sore, or some state of a secreting surface analogous to that of a sore: so that it is a discharge superadded to the natural ones. If therefore it be abund- ant, it will in time, and perhaps in a very short time, undermine the strength, and bring the life of the patient into hazard. His vigour will fail; the tone of the ves- sels will diminish; the secretions of the natural emunetories will escape too ra- pidly; perspiration from the skin, mucus from the bronchiae, bile from the liver and gall-bladder, mucous and serous fluids from the coats of the intestines, and per- haps also urine from the kidneys, will be poured forth in too great abundance; all these evils will reciprocally increase each other; and at length, nature, un-
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