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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    the general strength can be kept up. Sometimes a secreted fluid may be con- stantly directed to its natural outlet, either by a new opening, or the introduction of an instrument, so as to divert it from the sinus, which will then generally heal up. Thus the cure of a sinus communicating with the bladder, may be facilitated by wearing a flexible Catheter. Where a sinus remains open without any evident cause, it is most probably owing to some extraneous substance lodged in it, or to some little splinter or scale of bone, which may perhaps be en- tangled by passing a seton, and thus brought away. I have known a sinus remain open for many months, by a very small bit of the coat having lodged in some part of it. But where wounds have passed through fasciae, particularly those of the fore- arm and leg, they will often continue open, merely from want of vigour in the I
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