Gunshot injuries: their history, characteristic features, complications, and general treatment : with statistics concerning them as they are met with in warfare / by Sir T. Longmore.

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1877
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Credit: Gunshot injuries: their history, characteristic features, complications, and general treatment : with statistics concerning them as they are met with in warfare / by Sir T. Longmore. 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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    CHAPTER IV. ('ll-) OX THE CONDITIONS APPERTAINING TO THE PARTS OF THE BOOT INJl RED BY WHICH GUNSHOT INJURIES ARE MODIFIED IN THEIR IKIMAKY CHARACTERS AND DEGREES OF GRAVITY. (a) Angle of impact. Of massive projectiles . Internal damage without external marks . . . Examples during the Sepoy Mu- tiny Similar injuries from shell frag- ments . • • • 4 • Former explanations of these in- juries . Windage of shot Other hypotheses < tbjections to them Supposed hurts from windage ex- plained . Lairev’s opinions regarding them PA«ir. 93 93 94 04 0f> 05 05 95 05 00 Effects of internal hauuorrhage on them . • • • # • Remarkable qualities of human in- tegument .... Tlu ir influence on injuries by gun- shot . Escape of shot often prevented by tlieui ..... Influence on results of gunpowder explosions . • • Corresponding eflects in a railway injury . • • • (b) Anatomical situation and cx.tirse of trying. Wounds of special anatomical re- gions . PAOB 97 07 07 07 07 08 08 SECTION III. ON THE CHAR ACTE Ilf STIC FE A TURKS AND DIS- TINGUISHING SIGXS OF GUNSHOT INJURIES. Introductory Remarks 00 CHAPTER r. ON THE CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES OF INJURIES PRODUCED RY SOLID PROJECTILES. Contusions and Wounds. Contusions from solid projectiles. Simple gunshot contusions . Contusions from glancing gunshot Indirect contusions from gunshot. Cunshot contusion with fracture . il'iiinti* from solid pr< jectiles. Gunshot wounds in general . Gunshot at full speed . At diminished speed . i Spent gunshot .... Wounds from shell fragments ](X) From bullets at highest speed ] (X) At somewhat lessened speed 101 Wounds of entrance and exit Circumstances which modily their aspects . 101 Wounds from slirapnell bullets 102 Wounds with fracture of bone 102 Entrance wounds of large size 103 103 103 105 106 107 108 lost 10S>