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.

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    CHAPTER V. HOSPITAL GANGRENE AFTER GUNSHOT WOUNDS. Former types in military hospitals In British hospitals during Cri- mean War .... On board transports and elsewhere In the French hospitals during Crimean War . . • • In India during Sepoy Mutiny War . . . • Hen nen’s description of this dis- ease ...... Early symptoms . Guthrie's account of it Description of milder forms . PAOE 215 216 217 218 218 210 221 222 222 Varieties of hospital gangrene Distinctive signs of hospital and simple gangrene Various origins attributed to hos- pital gangrene . Indications of a local origin . Arguments for a constitutional origin Inspector-General Chenu’s views . Development of hospital gangrene Conclusions regarding it in military practice . FAGS 223 223 224 225 226 227 227 22!) CHAPTER VI. PY.UMIA AFTER GUNSHOT WOUNDS. Not recognised during Peninsular or Waterloo campaigns . . 230 Remote abscesses after wounds . 230 Views of army surgeons regarding them ..... 231 Frequency of pytemia in recent returns . . . . . 231 Mortality from it during the siege of Paris ..... 232 Wounds specially liable to it . 2.'!2 Its symptoms .... 233 CHAPTE Re-separation of united gunshot fractures . , 234 Modes of death in pyaemia . . 235 Nature of the disease . . . 235 Its association with wound* of bones ..... 237 Reasons for its prevalence in mili- tary hospitals . . 237 Con •fusions regarding it in mili- tary practice .... 239 R VI1. TETANUS A ITER GUNSHOT WOUNDS. Tetanic spasms .... 240 ! Its various forms .... 240 | Tetanus more frequent in former wars 240 j Statistics regarding it . . .241 Tetanus in two adjoining regiments in the Crimea .... 243 \ Cases in the 19th Regiment . . 243 i All states of gunshot wounds liable to it ..... 245 | After gunshot wounds of nerves . 245 Lodged pieces of cloth an exciting cause ..... 245 Nerve lesions not a sufficient cause ..... 246 \ Proportion in which it occurs in the tropics .... 247 Sudden alterations of teni]>erature 247 Isieal disturbance of wounds . 248 Professor Maclean’s experience in China . 248 Resume of causes in army hos- pitals 249 Cour.-e followed by it after gun- shot wounds .... 249 Period of its occurrence . . 250 May occur after a wound is healed 251 General immunity from it in the Crimea 251 Cause of this immunity . . 251 Acute and chronic tetanus . . 252 Pathology of traumatic tetanus . 253